xioustic
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7 years ago Initial Work to be Done:
- Select Minimum Viable Product UI Dialogs
- Implement Minimum Viable Product UI Dialogs in Qt Creator/Designer
- Create UI Build Pipeline (uic tool to go from .ui to .py)
- Build Minimum Viable Product UI Dialogs and Import into Main Module
- Finish Functionality for Minimum Viable Product UI Dialogs
- Finish Build Pipeline (ie pack to binary)
- Do Ultra Alpha Release
Will probably turn this into a milestone.
The Python implementation will utilize PySide (or PyQt, but PySide has the favorable license): https://github.com/PySide
I would recommend the original PySide over PySide2, because I believe PySide2 is still a work in progress.
Tutorials: https://wiki.qt.io/PySide_Tutorials
Early prototyping will target using Qt Creator/Designer to create .ui files that will transpile to Python. This should be somewhat similar to the forms editor including with most Microsoft products which I believe most contributors have mostly leaned on. This will be the basis for the UI. Quick tutorial here (getting it setup, creating a basic main window, compiling to Python, and running): https://wiki.qt.io/QtCreator_and_PySide
I don't recall when I was last working on this or the target base implementation, but some work was completed and can be seen in the Python branch under the ui folder.