lykwydchykyn
June 10th, 2009, 10:51 PM
I've written a few tools/scripts using pyqt4 just using Kate or emacs, but I got tasked with making a simple utility the other day at work and thought I'd try the "IDE way" to see if I could get things done a little cleaner.
I installed eric4 and qt-designer from the repositories and have been working with them for the last few days. I don't know if anyone here uses these tools regularly, but I have a few general questions:
- Not wanting to get into the nitty-gritty on these, but it seems like I eric is constantly spitting out errors and warnings at me about all kinds of stuff. For example, when I click on a .ui file in my project manager, it gives me an error that qt3-designer is not installed (even though I've disabled qt3 support in the preferences and created the .ui in qt4-designer), and it complains that such and such shared plugin's name starts with "lib" or similar when I try to "save as". Is this normal or is my system messed up?
- The version in the repos seems a few point releases back, so I'm wondering if some of this stuff is fixed. Is there a ppa with the latest eric, or at least a .deb somewhere? I couldn't find one searching launchpad, and I like to stick to using the package manager.
- Obviously I'm not used to working with these tools, but it really doesn't seem like I'm saving much work with them I mean, I can lay out the form, but I still have to do a lot of gui-related things by hand. For instance, I can only connect predefined signals/slots, which accounts for a tiny fraction of my signal/slot connections. All my callbacks and so forth have to be done by hand. Or am I missing something?
Anyone have any advice on getting up to speed on these tools?
I installed eric4 and qt-designer from the repositories and have been working with them for the last few days. I don't know if anyone here uses these tools regularly, but I have a few general questions:
- Not wanting to get into the nitty-gritty on these, but it seems like I eric is constantly spitting out errors and warnings at me about all kinds of stuff. For example, when I click on a .ui file in my project manager, it gives me an error that qt3-designer is not installed (even though I've disabled qt3 support in the preferences and created the .ui in qt4-designer), and it complains that such and such shared plugin's name starts with "lib" or similar when I try to "save as". Is this normal or is my system messed up?
- The version in the repos seems a few point releases back, so I'm wondering if some of this stuff is fixed. Is there a ppa with the latest eric, or at least a .deb somewhere? I couldn't find one searching launchpad, and I like to stick to using the package manager.
- Obviously I'm not used to working with these tools, but it really doesn't seem like I'm saving much work with them I mean, I can lay out the form, but I still have to do a lot of gui-related things by hand. For instance, I can only connect predefined signals/slots, which accounts for a tiny fraction of my signal/slot connections. All my callbacks and so forth have to be done by hand. Or am I missing something?
Anyone have any advice on getting up to speed on these tools?