Hi, Detlev,
Thanks for your quick reply.
> > 1. I create a new project and want to add a .ui form. What's the easiest
> > way to do this?
There are several ways to add a new .ui form.
1) In the Project Forms Browser show the context menu and select "New form...". This shows you a selection dialog with the most common form types to select from and opens Qt Designer.
As I mentioned in my initial post, the context menu is not enabled for me until the first form is manually added to the project. After the first form is added to the project, I can access the context menu for the Project Forms Browser. Is this a known issue?
>
> I second all these remarks on the usability - they are my concerns too.
>
> However I can see that point 1 is more complicated than it may seem, as
> creating a ui file most certainly needs some initial setup like base-class
> and name and so on, [snip]
Diez is referring to my suggestion that a "New Form" item be added to the "File" menu. Let me clarify: this could activate the same feature that is activated by the New Form option on the Project Forms Browser context menu (it opens a dialog that prompts the user for the type of form to be created, then launches Qt Designer). I really feel this would help new users figure out how to get a new form added to their project.
Most of the stuff you expect is probably somewhere in eric3. It's just a
matter of finding the right place. Or as another user said, I should stop to
underestimate eric3.
Regards, Detlev
I agree that eric3 is powerful and useful. But I feel that it could stand a bit of touching up on the usability front. You said "it's just a matter of finding the right place" to activate the desired feature. But with a little thought and work, eric3 could be far easier to learn to use -- a tool in which users don't have to work so hard to "find the right place." Rethinking the toolbars, tweaking some of the functionality slightly in ways I described in my original post, etc., would all go a long way towards shortening the learning curve for this already excellent product.
eric3 is probably the premier Python GUI development environment. I look forward to what the future has in store.
Thanks for listening,
Stephen Schaub
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