On Thursday 22 April 2010 04:42:18 pm Matt Newell wrote: > > Thanks for the response. I guess I'm surprized that others don't know > > about openRPT. I wonder what everyone is using for a report writer? I'm > > using pyQT to write a CRUD app. And I need a report writer. I looked at > > reportlab but soon discovered openRPT. The xTuple folks use it (both > > xTuple and openRPT writer were written in QT). > > > > So I guess the question is what is required to interface pyQT to other QT > > programs written in C++. I realize that the question is very general. > > But I hope others will provide at least a starting point for me. > > I think it really depends on what you want to accomplish using python/pyqt. > At the very least you'll have to write .sip bindings for whatever classes > you want to use from python. From there you'll need to make the app into a > library so it's functionality can be used from a python script, and/or > embed python into the program itself and add hooks in appropriate places. > > For example if your goal is to use a template already created through the > gui, and have a script load that template and generate reports > automatically with different data sets, then you might need a fairly small > subset of the programs functionality exposed to python. > > If on the other hand you want to be able to embed python fragments into the > forms, in order to manipulate the data in some way, that may require > significant modification to the program itself. > > No matter what you will have to become familiar with sip, and if you go the > embedding route you will also have to become familiar with some of python's > C-apis. > > > What is > > implied also in my question is the assumation that because openRPT (and > > others) were written in QT that should be some sort of standard way to > > interface from pyQT. > > Writing sip bindings for C++ classes that use Qt is fairly straightforward > in most cases. IMO it can be learned quite quickly by looking at the .sip > files used by PyQt4 itself, and referring to the docs when you don't > understand what is what. > > Matt
I believe your comments will be very helpful. At least I have a starting point. Thanks Johnf _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
