As the QUiLoader in PySide is somewhat buggy, especially with
custom/promoted widgets, I would recommend using the
QtBindingHelper.py from rosgui, or at least the loadUi function
implemented therein.
Using the binding helper makes your software agnostic of the actual
binding used, so you can easily switch between PySide and PyQt,
which sometimes helps in finding bugs that are actually in PySide
and not in your own code...
All you have to do is import QtBindingHelper before importing any Qt
stuff:
from QtBindingHelper import loadUi
import QtCore
from QtGui import QWidget
It will try to use PyQt and fall back to PySide automatically if
necessary.
But you can also force it to use only one of them by editing the
binding list, or setting a property on the sys module before
importing the binding helper:
import sys
setattr(sys, 'SELECT_QT_BINDING', 'pyside')
Cheers,
Dorian
On 11/03/2011 01:22 AM, William Woodall wrote:
Ah, I don't know why I didn't think about something
like QUiLoader... Man I feel silly, I guess I have been just
using the script to generate the py files because that is how they
do it in many of the tutorials.
I have worked with the cmake macros for generating headers
from ui files in c++, but I guess I was expecting something
similar for python. This makes way more sense.
Thanks,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
William Woodall
Graduate Software Engineering
Auburn University w@auburn.edu wjwwood@gmail.com
Have you found a good way to automatically generate py
files from ui files using pyqt and/or pyside inside a
ros build system?
It looks like ros_gui isn't currently, but I was
wondering if you had any leads. I am working on a
project that uses pyside and I wanted to generate them
at build time rather than committing the
generated file.
I am not sure why you would generate any code for UI files
in Python.
In Python plugins you can just load the UI file at runtime
(no need for any generated files)??
For C++ plugins you will include your UI files in the cmake
files and the generated code will be included in the
library.