Here's a question. I want to build a gui hierarchy viewer. Not a normal
treeview/folder viewer but something a bit more like the rendertree with
free-form nodes, multiple inputs, connections and stuff. Is there anything
in QT that would do that? Easily?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Alan Jones
> Sent: 07 August 2006 15:32
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: [OT]: Python GUI editor
>
> Interesting to hear about your experience, Patrick. I was sure I wasn't
> the only one ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan.
>
> On 8/7/06, Patrick Boucher <patrickb(at)buzzimage.com> wrote:
> > Alan Jones wrote:
> > > ummmm yeah, but you only need a license if you're going to sell
> your
> > > application made with it and you don't want to GPL it.
> > >
> > > If it's just inhouse (or released sold/released under gpl) then
> > > there's no need for a license.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Alan.
> >
> > We had to make a platform choice such as this one a few months back
> > and this list was very helpful in making that decision... Any way
> here
> > was our reasoning.
> >
> > I'd done Perl/Tk and hadn't enjoyed the Tk experience all that much.
> > The second you got anywhere further that bread and butter it would
> all
> > break down.
> >
> > We had Wx (http://www.wxwidgets.org/) suggested. Had done a tiny bit
> > of it but didn't know how it would react on a large scale project.
> >
> > Qt was also suggested. At the time we were looking at QT 4.x and PyQt
> > 3.x. So the version mismatch was a bit of a pain. Knowing PyQt 4.x
> was
> > around the corner (the only piece missing for us to use Qt) and
> having
> > a bit of prior Wx experience, we went the Wx (with python bindings)
> route.
> >
> > Our in house guru here started writing the main application
> > (python/wx) while I wrote a support application on the web
> > (python/apache). He had issues with Wx while I had to code a form/UI
> > framework for the web. A few months pass... PyQt 4.x came out and I
> > gave it a try an evening. In the next three weeks we had moved all
> our
> > code to PyQt and QT and everything was working smoother and was
> simple
> > to code than it had ever been.
> >
> > The UI designer that comes with QT may not be perfect but it is _way_
> > better than anything else I have every seen. The on-the-fly compiling
> > of .ui files makes changing the UI a breeze without ever touching a
> > single line of code. The Api is highly object oriented and 'fits your
> brain'.
> >
> > As Alan said, especially if you're doing PyQt or in-house stuff, read
> > the license: you don't need to buy QT. So download it and have fun.
> > You can blame me afterwards if it doesn't work for you. If it does
> > work out, scotch is my thing.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Patrick Boucher
> > TD - Coder - Resident geek
> > Buzz Image Group
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> > Fax 514.848.6371
> >
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