Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: PyQGIS Auto-completion and Call Tips in Eric Python Editor

2012-04-09 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Larry

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Larry Shaffer  wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Larry Shaffer 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've successfully generated QScintilla2 API files for the QGIS Python
>> bindings and utility modules [0]. If you use the Eric4/5 Python editor (or
>> another based on QScintilla2), you may be interested in installing and
>> compiling these APIs.
>
>
> Seems a better approach, instead of changing SIPMacros.cmake, would be in
> python/CMakeLists.txt [0]:
>
> --- python/CMakeLists_orig.txt    2012-02-19 13:41:41.0 -0700
> +++ python/CMakeLists.txt    2012-04-08 21:00:16.0 -0600
> @@ -54,0 +55 @@
> +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
> ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.core.api)
> @@ -68,0 +70 @@
> +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
> ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.gui.api)
> @@ -79,0 +82 @@
> +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
> ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.analysis.api)
>
> This worked fine on compile, creating the same output as the SIPMacros.cmake
> edit. Each SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS could be wrapped with a conditional based on a
> compile option for generating the APIs.
>

Two quick comments:

1) Could you submit your patch via github? If it is a cmake
conditional compilation I see no reason to exclude it from master -
others may have a different opinion.
2) What I would really *love* is to have QGIS api completion (and
other standard python modules if it is easy to achieve) in the built
in python console that is activeated from the QGIS plugins menu. I
often like to demo stuff to people using the python console and always
flap around trying to remember syntax. Obviously this would add a
qsctintilla dependency to QGIS core - how do others feel about this?
Given the other work you are busy with that dependency is probably
coming anyway


Regards

Tim

>
> Regards,
>
> Larry Shaffer
> Dakota Cartography
> Black Hills, South Dakota
>
> [0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/CMakeLists.txt
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Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: PyQGIS Auto-completion and Call Tips in Eric Python Editor

2012-04-09 Thread G. Allegri
I would seriously consider upgrading the Python console, first of all to
support autocompletion. I suggested the incorporation of QScintilla a
couple of years ago, but it didn't raise much interest. A few weeks ago I
gave a look to iPython, and it's Qt console [1].

giovanni

[1]  http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/qtconsole.html


2012/4/9 Tim Sutton 

> Hi Larry
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Larry Shaffer 
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Larry Shaffer 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've successfully generated QScintilla2 API files for the QGIS Python
> >> bindings and utility modules [0]. If you use the Eric4/5 Python editor
> (or
> >> another based on QScintilla2), you may be interested in installing and
> >> compiling these APIs.
> >
> >
> > Seems a better approach, instead of changing SIPMacros.cmake, would be in
> > python/CMakeLists.txt [0]:
> >
> > --- python/CMakeLists_orig.txt2012-02-19 13:41:41.0 -0700
> > +++ python/CMakeLists.txt2012-04-08 21:00:16.0 -0600
> > @@ -54,0 +55 @@
> > +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
> > ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.core.api)
> > @@ -68,0 +70 @@
> > +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
> > ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.gui.api)
> > @@ -79,0 +82 @@
> > +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
> > ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.analysis.api)
> >
> > This worked fine on compile, creating the same output as the
> SIPMacros.cmake
> > edit. Each SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS could be wrapped with a conditional based
> on a
> > compile option for generating the APIs.
> >
>
> Two quick comments:
>
> 1) Could you submit your patch via github? If it is a cmake
> conditional compilation I see no reason to exclude it from master -
> others may have a different opinion.
> 2) What I would really *love* is to have QGIS api completion (and
> other standard python modules if it is easy to achieve) in the built
> in python console that is activeated from the QGIS plugins menu. I
> often like to demo stuff to people using the python console and always
> flap around trying to remember syntax. Obviously this would add a
> qsctintilla dependency to QGIS core - how do others feel about this?
> Given the other work you are busy with that dependency is probably
> coming anyway
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Larry Shaffer
> > Dakota Cartography
> > Black Hills, South Dakota
> >
> > [0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/CMakeLists.txt
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Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: PyQGIS Auto-completion and Call Tips in Eric Python Editor

2012-04-09 Thread Etienne Tourigny
It certainly looks good - but how about installing it along with it's
dependencies (such ZeroMQ and PyZMQ), particularly in windows or mac?

Etienne


On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:06 PM, G. Allegri  wrote:
> I would seriously consider upgrading the Python console, first of all to
> support autocompletion. I suggested the incorporation of QScintilla a couple
> of years ago, but it didn't raise much interest. A few weeks ago I gave a
> look to iPython, and it's Qt console [1].
>
> giovanni
>
> [1]  http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/qtconsole.html
>
>
>
> 2012/4/9 Tim Sutton 
>>
>> Hi Larry
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Larry Shaffer 
>> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Larry Shaffer 
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I've successfully generated QScintilla2 API files for the QGIS Python
>> >> bindings and utility modules [0]. If you use the Eric4/5 Python editor
>> >> (or
>> >> another based on QScintilla2), you may be interested in installing and
>> >> compiling these APIs.
>> >
>> >
>> > Seems a better approach, instead of changing SIPMacros.cmake, would be
>> > in
>> > python/CMakeLists.txt [0]:
>> >
>> > --- python/CMakeLists_orig.txt    2012-02-19 13:41:41.0 -0700
>> > +++ python/CMakeLists.txt    2012-04-08 21:00:16.0 -0600
>> > @@ -54,0 +55 @@
>> > +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
>> > ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.core.api)
>> > @@ -68,0 +70 @@
>> > +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
>> > ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.gui.api)
>> > @@ -79,0 +82 @@
>> > +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
>> > ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.analysis.api)
>> >
>> > This worked fine on compile, creating the same output as the
>> > SIPMacros.cmake
>> > edit. Each SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS could be wrapped with a conditional based
>> > on a
>> > compile option for generating the APIs.
>> >
>>
>> Two quick comments:
>>
>> 1) Could you submit your patch via github? If it is a cmake
>> conditional compilation I see no reason to exclude it from master -
>> others may have a different opinion.
>> 2) What I would really *love* is to have QGIS api completion (and
>> other standard python modules if it is easy to achieve) in the built
>> in python console that is activeated from the QGIS plugins menu. I
>> often like to demo stuff to people using the python console and always
>> flap around trying to remember syntax. Obviously this would add a
>> qsctintilla dependency to QGIS core - how do others feel about this?
>> Given the other work you are busy with that dependency is probably
>> coming anyway
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Larry Shaffer
>> > Dakota Cartography
>> > Black Hills, South Dakota
>> >
>> > [0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/CMakeLists.txt
>> >
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Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: PyQGIS Auto-completion and Call Tips in Eric Python Editor

2012-04-09 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:06 PM, G. Allegri  wrote:
> I would seriously consider upgrading the Python console, first of all to
> support autocompletion. I suggested the incorporation of QScintilla a couple
> of years ago, but it didn't raise much interest.

Sometimes these things take time to gather interestwe have a much
larger python userbase and probably these ideas are more likely to
gain critical mass...


>A few weeks ago I gave a
> look to iPython, and it's Qt console [1].

Larry has a very nice simple integrated IDE plugin in the works that
also uses scintilla, which I would like to see become part of QGIS
core, so scintilla is probably a good fit (though I don't know if it
is mutually exclusive of iPython Qt).

Regards

Tim

>
> giovanni
>
> [1]  http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/qtconsole.html
>
>
>
> 2012/4/9 Tim Sutton 
>>
>> Hi Larry
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Larry Shaffer 
>> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Larry Shaffer 
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I've successfully generated QScintilla2 API files for the QGIS Python
>> >> bindings and utility modules [0]. If you use the Eric4/5 Python editor
>> >> (or
>> >> another based on QScintilla2), you may be interested in installing and
>> >> compiling these APIs.
>> >
>> >
>> > Seems a better approach, instead of changing SIPMacros.cmake, would be
>> > in
>> > python/CMakeLists.txt [0]:
>> >
>> > --- python/CMakeLists_orig.txt    2012-02-19 13:41:41.0 -0700
>> > +++ python/CMakeLists.txt    2012-04-08 21:00:16.0 -0600
>> > @@ -54,0 +55 @@
>> > +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
>> > ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.core.api)
>> > @@ -68,0 +70 @@
>> > +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
>> > ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.gui.api)
>> > @@ -79,0 +82 @@
>> > +set(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a
>> > ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qgis.analysis.api)
>> >
>> > This worked fine on compile, creating the same output as the
>> > SIPMacros.cmake
>> > edit. Each SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS could be wrapped with a conditional based
>> > on a
>> > compile option for generating the APIs.
>> >
>>
>> Two quick comments:
>>
>> 1) Could you submit your patch via github? If it is a cmake
>> conditional compilation I see no reason to exclude it from master -
>> others may have a different opinion.
>> 2) What I would really *love* is to have QGIS api completion (and
>> other standard python modules if it is easy to achieve) in the built
>> in python console that is activeated from the QGIS plugins menu. I
>> often like to demo stuff to people using the python console and always
>> flap around trying to remember syntax. Obviously this would add a
>> qsctintilla dependency to QGIS core - how do others feel about this?
>> Given the other work you are busy with that dependency is probably
>> coming anyway
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Larry Shaffer
>> > Dakota Cartography
>> > Black Hills, South Dakota
>> >
>> > [0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/CMakeLists.txt
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Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: PyQGIS Auto-completion and Call Tips in Eric Python Editor

2012-04-09 Thread Larry Shaffer
Hi Tim,

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Tim Sutton  wrote:

> Hi Larry
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Larry Shaffer 
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Larry Shaffer 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've successfully generated QScintilla2 API files for the QGIS Python
> >> bindings and utility modules [0]. If you use the Eric4/5 Python editor
> (or
> >> another based on QScintilla2), you may be interested in installing and
> >> compiling these APIs.
> >
> >
> > Seems a better approach, instead of changing SIPMacros.cmake, would be in
> > python/CMakeLists.txt [0]:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > This worked fine on compile, creating the same output as the
> SIPMacros.cmake
> > edit. Each SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS could be wrapped with a conditional based
> on a
> > compile option for generating the APIs.
> >
>
> Two quick comments:
>
> 1) Could you submit your patch via github? If it is a cmake
> conditional compilation I see no reason to exclude it from master -
> others may have a different opinion.
>

Sure. I'll sync my local master branch and test the edits (since I only
tested builds of 1.7.4, which didn't have qgis.networkanalysis). I don't
see any issue with leaving the changes as is, if the .api files are not
going to be packaged with the target. Generation of the .api files does not
seem to slow down the compilation, as far as I can tell.


> 2) What I would really *love* is to have QGIS api completion (and
> other standard python modules if it is easy to achieve) in the built
> in python console that is activeated from the QGIS plugins menu. I
> often like to demo stuff to people using the python console and always
> flap around trying to remember syntax. Obviously this would add a
> qsctintilla dependency to QGIS core - how do others feel about this?
> Given the other work you are busy with that dependency is probably
> coming anyway
>

 :^)  Porting the QTextEdit of PyQGIS console.py to QScintilla was what I
was going to look into next. I have already bootlegged it into Plugin
Editor and done some customizations.

The Eric editor has a nice Python console based on QScintilla (syntax
coloring, code completion and call tips), but I had difficulty trying to
port it to Plugin Editor, because it leverages Eric's entrenched debugger
classes. The ported base debugger I tried consistently crashed QGIS. Maybe
it can be included in a later version.

Currently I have code completion and call tips working well in Plugin
Editor [0]. The compiled API files I am testing with are:

PyQt4-Qt4.8.api, Python-2.7.api, QScintilla2.api
qgis.analysis.api, qgis.console.api, qgis.core.api, qgis.gui.api,
qgis.utils.api

The compiled API 'python.pap' file for a given QScintilla editor widget is
~37,500 api items total, and 900 KB in size (yet is still quite responsive).

The IPython console is very powerful, but required compilation of ZeroMQ on
my Mac. I think it would be great to add to Plugin Editor, but a
QScintilla-based PyQGIS console, I think, would be a good first step.

Regards,

Larry Shaffer
Dakota Cartography
Black Hills, South Dakota

[0]
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/plugin-editor_qsci-autocompl-calltips.png
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Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: PyQGIS Auto-completion and Call Tips in Eric Python Editor

2012-04-09 Thread Larry Shaffer
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Larry Shaffer wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Tim Sutton  wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
> 2) What I would really *love* is to have QGIS api completion (and
>> other standard python modules if it is easy to achieve) in the built
>> in python console that is activeated from the QGIS plugins menu. I
>> often like to demo stuff to people using the python console and always
>> flap around trying to remember syntax. Obviously this would add a
>> qsctintilla dependency to QGIS core - how do others feel about this?
>> Given the other work you are busy with that dependency is probably
>> coming anyway
>>
>
>  :^)  Porting the QTextEdit of PyQGIS console.py to QScintilla was what I
> was going to look into next. I have already bootlegged it into Plugin
> Editor and done some customizations.
>
> The Eric editor has a nice Python console based on QScintilla (syntax
> coloring, code completion and call tips), but I had difficulty trying to
> port it to Plugin Editor, because it leverages Eric's entrenched debugger
> classes. The ported base debugger I tried consistently crashed QGIS. Maybe
> it can be included in a later version.
>
> Currently I have code completion and call tips working well in Plugin
> Editor [0]. The compiled API files I am testing with are:
>
> PyQt4-Qt4.8.api, Python-2.7.api, QScintilla2.api
> qgis.analysis.api, qgis.console.api, qgis.core.api, qgis.gui.api,
> qgis.utils.api
>
> The compiled API 'python.pap' file for a given QScintilla editor widget is
> ~37,500 api items total, and 900 KB in size (yet is still quite responsive).
>


Having played around with the code completion, I added another .api file
for the qgis.utils.iface instance [0]. This allows direct access to the 149
QgisInterface slots/functions when typing just 'iface' [1], which is common.

@Tim - I have recently added templates (built-in and custom) to Plugin
Editor as well. Using the run_script() template (formulated as per Script
Runner) you can quickly open a test script, with code completion and call
tips, type a few lines and run it within the Editor. Also, you can copy
text selections via drag/drop to the PyQGIS console for running. Those
steps would help you to show some example code quickly.

Switching from QTextEdit to QScintilla for the console looks like about a
50% rewrite, plus some refactoring. Certainly an all-weekend kinda project,
considering new features would be added, too.

Regards,

Larry Shaffer
Dakota Cartography
Black Hills, South Dakota

[0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/qgis.utils.iface.api
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Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: PyQGIS Auto-completion and Call Tips in Eric Python Editor

2012-04-09 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Larry Shaffer  wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Larry Shaffer 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Tim Sutton  wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> 2) What I would really *love* is to have QGIS api completion (and
>>> other standard python modules if it is easy to achieve) in the built
>>> in python console that is activeated from the QGIS plugins menu. I
>>> often like to demo stuff to people using the python console and always
>>> flap around trying to remember syntax. Obviously this would add a
>>> qsctintilla dependency to QGIS core - how do others feel about this?
>>> Given the other work you are busy with that dependency is probably
>>> coming anyway
>>
>>
>>  :^)  Porting the QTextEdit of PyQGIS console.py to QScintilla was what I
>> was going to look into next. I have already bootlegged it into Plugin Editor
>> and done some customizations.
>>
>> The Eric editor has a nice Python console based on QScintilla (syntax
>> coloring, code completion and call tips), but I had difficulty trying to
>> port it to Plugin Editor, because it leverages Eric's entrenched debugger
>> classes. The ported base debugger I tried consistently crashed QGIS. Maybe
>> it can be included in a later version.
>>
>> Currently I have code completion and call tips working well in Plugin
>> Editor [0]. The compiled API files I am testing with are:
>>
>>     PyQt4-Qt4.8.api, Python-2.7.api, QScintilla2.api
>>     qgis.analysis.api, qgis.console.api, qgis.core.api, qgis.gui.api,
>> qgis.utils.api
>>
>> The compiled API 'python.pap' file for a given QScintilla editor widget is
>> ~37,500 api items total, and 900 KB in size (yet is still quite responsive).
>
>
>
> Having played around with the code completion, I added another .api file for
> the qgis.utils.iface instance [0]. This allows direct access to the 149
> QgisInterface slots/functions when typing just 'iface' [1], which is common.
>
> @Tim - I have recently added templates (built-in and custom) to Plugin
> Editor as well. Using the run_script() template (formulated as per Script
> Runner) you can quickly open a test script, with code completion and call
> tips, type a few lines and run it within the Editor. Also, you can copy text
> selections via drag/drop to the PyQGIS console for running. Those steps
> would help you to show some example code quickly.
>

Awesome stuff!

> Switching from QTextEdit to QScintilla for the console looks like about a
> 50% rewrite, plus some refactoring. Certainly an all-weekend kinda project,
> considering new features would be added, too.
>

Maybe not needed as a priority if you think you could achieve the same
using your script runner like support in the editor?

Regards

Tim

> Regards,
>
> Larry Shaffer
> Dakota Cartography
> Black Hills, South Dakota
>
> [0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/qgis.utils.iface.api
> [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/qgis-qsci-iface.png
>



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