Re: [PyQt] Composite widgets?

2010-09-06 Thread fpp
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > Start browsing the Qt documentation. Yes, it's a bit arkward to ignore the > C++ decoration, but after getting used to, you start to enjoy to be able to > ignore all the C++ related complexities and regret all those poor C++ > hackers:

Re: [PyQt] Composite widgets?

2010-09-06 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
On Monday 06 September 2010, 03:13:29 Peter Milliken wrote: > Prior to embarking on learning PyQt, I wrote my GUI applications using > Tkinter and Pmw. The Pmw widget set is quite nice and provides a library > of composite classes using the Tkinter widgets. > > My question is: > > Is there any (sim

Re: [PyQt] Composite widgets?

2010-09-06 Thread Dan Kripac
On having a quick look at pmw, I can definitely say that a lot of that functionality is available as PyQt native widgets (plus much much more) and the few exceptions would be able to be made with code not much more complex than the example I gave. It may seem overwhelming at first, but it would be

Re: [PyQt] Composite widgets?

2010-09-06 Thread Peter Milliken
Thanks Dan, but I was really looking for something much more elaborate :-) The structure of the Pmw library/widgets is difficult to describe, but I found it an amazingly powerful library that allow some pretty nice (and easy) extensions once you understood how it worked. Whilst I have never delved

Re: [PyQt] Composite widgets?

2010-09-06 Thread Dan Kripac
Hi Peter, I find that a lot of my use with PyQt is composing compound widget subclasses that combine other widgets in a particular arrangement and behaviour that I need. You can easily design the way they behave in terms of signals emitted, and you can capture mouse and keyboard events simply by o

[PyQt] Composite widgets?

2010-09-05 Thread Peter Milliken
Prior to embarking on learning PyQt, I wrote my GUI applications using Tkinter and Pmw. The Pmw widget set is quite nice and provides a library of composite classes using the Tkinter widgets. My question is: Is there any (similar) composite widgets in PyQt? i.e. Pmw has the EntryField widget, whi