Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by RMPR on Monday November 16, 2020 @02:57AM (#25109235)

I like that UI! Out of curiosity, do you use a kind of wysiwyg (a la qt designer) to make your interfaces, or do you write Python code directly? Coming from JavaFX using scenebuilder to design UIs, l tried Pyside2 some years ago, never managed to find a way to make it work with a wysiwyg the way I am used to with JavaFX. Writing and styling widgets by hand is painfully slow.

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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by scarygliders on Monday November 16, 2020 @06:57AM (#25110636)

Thanks :)

I use Qt Designer for the layout. I never could get the hang of the Horizontal & Vertical spacers or the Layout Managers in Qt, so it's a static layout.

There are quite a few "pages" in the application which appear or disappear when required. Those are all QWidgets which have their own static layout.

The doughnut chart showing materials available on a planet is a dynamically created web page shown via a QtWebView widget.

There's an Overlay Widget which is basically a QWidget with transparency, with the main window being hidden then called up via a global hotkey - I use Python ctypes to enable the global hotkey, calling the Windows API to enable that functionality.

And the underlying databases used are sqlite3 via SQLAlchemy.

It all works very nicely.

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