[PyQt] Qt Creator / Designer extensibility

[Dietmar Schwertberger]

On 16.01.2016 12:50, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>
> And that's the point where eric can help. An eric project shows the 
> files on distinct tabs of its project viewer/manager. On there you can 
> ask a .ui file being compiled to Python via the context menu and you 
> can ask eric to create a skeleton of the correlated Python script.
>
That sounds cool. I gave it a try and if I could cope, I wanted to 
suggest that to my colleague.

May I suggest that you update the feature list on the front page and 
upload one or two screenshots about that? The screenshots are probably 
the most important source of information.

Also, may I suggest that you skip the need for installation? When 
eric.py is started, just generate the missing bits like config and sip 
installation.
Currently, if someone wants to evaluate several IDEs, there's a high 
probability that Eric will not even be installed.
After installation, I wanted to start a test project, but the OK button 
of "Project Properties" was greyed out permanently without any 
indication why. Well, the reason was that the project directory needs to 
be a subdirectory of the "Workspace".
Then the default view is a split window which does not have any 
functionality if there's no file open and no debug process running. 
Well, sooner or later you discover there's some functionality somewhere. 
But forms that jump around just annoy me, so at that point I stopped.

Eric may be a nice IDE with the unique feature of Qt integration, but it 
seems also quite good in keeping away new users. So I'm not surprised 
that in the GUI builder discussions on c.l.p nobody ever mentioned it.

Regards,

Dietmar
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