[PyQt] ANN: dip v0.1 Released - An Application Development Framework for PyQt and Python v3

[Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao]

and when do you plan to support python 2.6.x?

On 7/17/10, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:09:04 +0200, Antonio Valentino
> <antonio.valentino at tiscali.it> wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> Il giorno Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:02:57 +0100
>> Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> ha scritto:
>>
>>> dip v0.1 has been released. This is the first release of dip, an
>>> application development framework for PyQt and (for the moment at
>>> least) Python v3.
>>>
>>> The user documentation, including tutorials and a full API reference
>>> is available at
>>> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/dip/index.html
>>>
>>> dip is suitable for developing simple utilities and large scale,
>>> complex applications. It includes the following features...
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> first of all congratulations for the great job.
>>
>> I have still not finished to read the docs but it seems to me that many
>> of the features provided by dip are also present in the enthought
>> framework (Traits, Envisage, etc.).
>
> Agreed. I've worked with Enthought for several years and did the original
> port to PyQt amongst other things. There is a lot of good stuff in it.
>
>> I would like to ask you why you decided to develop a new framework and
>> which are advantages/drawbacks of using dip instead of enthought.
>
> There were many reasons to create a new framework, one being the need for
> Python v3 support and the desire to use Python v3 features.
>
> Another significant reason was the way that the Enthought stuff implements
> toolkit independence, ie. the compromises it makes in order to support wx
> and PyQt. As a PyQt programmer you often end up being frustrated that you
> can't get your GUIs to do what you want because TraitsUi is getting in the
> way.
>
> In dip, QWidgets are first class objects. When you create a GUI you get a
> QWidget, not something that wraps a QWidget in an API that is designed to
> support wx. Another example (which you'll understand if you are familiar
> with Traits) is that dip allows you to do...
>
> class MyClass(QObject, Model):
>     ...
>
> ...where Model is the dip equivalent of HasTraits.
>
> Of course the Enthought stuff is very mature and has lots of stuff that
> dip doesn't have - for example it is very good for engineering applications
> that need 2D and 3D visualisation.
>
> Phil
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Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao
Centro de Biofisica Medica
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