[PyQt] Qt Creator / Designer extensibility

[Detlev Offenbach]

Why not use an IDE made for Python and Qt development? The eric IDE could be the tool 
of choice (http://eric-ide.python-projects.org).

Detlev

On Thursday 14 January 2016, 23:20:02 Dietmar Schwertberger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Today there was a post on c.l.p.a about a plug-in for Qt Creator.
> This triggered me now to ask a question that I have been wondering for
> some time.
> Qt Designer is one of the best GUI designers available.
> Would it be possible to extend Qt Designer/Creator to a RAD tool in the
> style of e.g. Visual BASIC (6.0)?
> E.g.:
>   - draw a form
>   - place some controls on it
>   - select e.g. a text control, select an event like "changed"
>   - directly edit some code or a method to be executed on the changed event
> The point is that currently it's easy to write a Python program for e.g.
> equipment control or data analysis, but adding a simple GUI with some
> text inputs and buttons is out of scope for most people.
> If you wonder about the relevance, just ask yourself what tool the most
> people use for text processing. Is it TeX or is it MS Word? Nobody wants
> to read reference manuals, so the tool of the majority of people is not
> something like TeX but something which can be controlled with the mouse.
> And if you want to switch from one GUI word processor to another, you
> can do so without reading a manual.
> Back to GUIs: if you know how to program in BASIC, you can be taught to
> implement a simple GUI in Visual BASIC 6 within a few minutes and if you
> want to implement the next GUI a year later, you still will not have to
> (re-)read a manual.
> For Python there's no such tool, which makes it hard to sell Python as a
> solution in many areas.
> 
> For wx there are or were some tools which tried, but to my knowledge
> none of these really reached the required state of features, maturity
> and maintenance.
> 
> (If you wonder about my references to VB6: you probably won't believe
> how many VB6 programs are still in use for e.g. measurement and control.
> Microsoft did forget to provide real a migration path. Unfortunately I
> had to fix and maintain some of these 'solutions'.)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dietmar
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