Re: [PyQt] SVG Glyphs in PyQt

2010-09-15 Thread Jeremy Sanders
Kyle Covington wrote: Anyway, my solution is providing a good workaround for the problem, I just wanted to give the code out in case someone else was having the same issue. If pyqt would like an example of a cairo svg from R that didn't render I can send one if you would like to tackle the

Re: [PyQt] Howto use the Qt documentation successfully - Was: Re: Access to lines of text on textEdit.

2010-09-15 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
On Wednesday 15 September 2010, 01:25:39 Peter Milliken wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Hans-Peter Jansen h...@urpla.net wrote: Come on, Peter, that's not fair. Phil decided to not provide the bulky docs in an otherwise pretty complete package for Windows users: please respect that.

Re: [PyQt] SVG Glyphs in PyQt

2010-09-15 Thread Colin McPhail
On 15 Sep 2010, at 09:57, Jeremy Sanders wrote: Kyle Covington wrote: Anyway, my solution is providing a good workaround for the problem, I just wanted to give the code out in case someone else was having the same issue. If pyqt would like an example of a cairo svg from R that didn't

Re: [PyQt] Howto use the Qt documentation successfully - Was: Re: Access to lines of text on textEdit.

2010-09-15 Thread fpp
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Peter Milliken peter.milli...@gmail.com wrote: After reviewing and reflecting on my experiences with PyQt over the last two weeks and also considering the implications of some of your comments here which relate to a depth of knowledge that isn't immediately

Re: [PyQt] Howto use the Qt documentation successfully - Was: Re: Access to lines of text on textEdit.

2010-09-15 Thread fpp
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen h...@urpla.net wrote: You're still welcome ;-) Oooops, I took too long to write that message, and Hans-Peter beat me to the punch, with almost the same arguments :-) ___ PyQt mailing list

Re: [PyQt] Howto use the Qt documentation successfully - Was: Re: Access to lines of text on textEdit.

2010-09-15 Thread fpp
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen h...@urpla.net wrote: If there ever will be usable python apps on mobile devices (they will) with complex UIs, that not always let the user remember the interpreted python penalty, those will be from our camp. Actually there are a lot of

Re: [PyQt] dip model types, properties, and syntax

2010-09-15 Thread Darren Dale
class ExampleModel(Model): name = Str() @name.getter def name(self): return self._name I have an additional suggestion to follow up on this syntax. If a model type's __call__ method were changed to call its getter method, rather than return the default value, I think it

Re: [PyQt] timers from mainwindow

2010-09-15 Thread Sebastian Elsner
Of course thats it, thanks :) On 09/14/2010 08:01 PM, Doug Bell wrote: Sebastian Elsner wrote: I would like to start a QTimer from a mainwindow's menu, creating a new instance of a custom class. See the example below. All works except the timer's callback is never called. Asking if the timer

Re: [PyQt] Howto use the Qt documentation successfully

2010-09-15 Thread Robert Lummis
I'd like to second Peter Milliken's sentiments. The PyQt documentation that's available is (in my opinion) pretty poor. Finding a way to do something that you haven't done before by browsing the documentation is nearly impossible. Or at least it's so frustrating and time-consuming that I often

[PyQt] Weird problem with QSystemTrayIcon

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Frederich
I looked at the example with PyQt for system tray icons and tried to use it in my application. I couldn't get it to work. I couldn't find what the example was doing that I wasn't doing. I even did the stuff in the same order. I wound up taking the example and in-lining a bunch of functions then

Re: [PyQt] Weird problem with QSystemTrayIcon

2010-09-15 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
On Wednesday 15 September 2010, 20:34:12 Eric Frederich wrote: In the end, I wound up with a small sample application where for some reason I need to call QtGui.QGroupBox() with some string or I'll never see the system tray icon. Below is example code. If you remove the line ...

Re: [PyQt] Howto use the Qt documentation successfully

2010-09-15 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
On Wednesday 15 September 2010, 19:50:11 Robert Lummis wrote: I'd like to second Peter Milliken's sentiments. The PyQt documentation that's available is (in my opinion) pretty poor. Finding a way to do something that you haven't done before by browsing the documentation is nearly impossible.