[PyQt] How to write a GUI interface for a set of Python programs?

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 28.01.08 09:21:20, Algis Kabaila wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:11:21I another thread Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 schrieb Ryen Lee:
> > > > > Hi everybody! I am a newbie for PyQT.Now I am write a simple programm
> > > > > 
> [...]
> The above sentence from another thread describes well my current status.
> 
> In the last few years I wrote a series of programs in Python for Structural 
> Analysis for Engineering structures.  IMHO, Python is a great teaching 
> language that enables one to expose the basic principles of programming 
> without having to go into extraneous details.
> 
> Currently those programs lack GUI.  I would like to write GUI with a minimum 
> need to substantially change my extant Python programs and a 
> minimum "immersion" into yet another computer language (I am 83 and have 
> learned many languages - computer since the valve computer days as well as 
> human - in my long and varied life).
> 
> PyQt interface looks pretty, it is an integral part of KDE, so it seems like 
> the right candidate for my objectives.  
> 
> Is it possible to create a GUI with QtDesigner and "assemble" it into PyQt 
> from the *.ui files and then outside of the QtDesigner call extant Python 
> programs?  Or is that an impossible dream?

Thats quite easy using a python-written class that uses the .ui file to
setup the GUI.

> If that is possible, how can I achieve that aim with the latest (?) QtDesigner 
> version 3.3.8?

I suggest to look into PyQt4 instead, Qt 3.3 is not maintained anymore
by TT (maybe for important security fixes) and thus doesn't get updates
anymore. PyQt4/Qt4 is the current state of the art and it still ships
with designer, though the actual use of the .ui files has changed a bit.

Andreas

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