That's not a stupid question. I'll answer as best I can. More
experienced people can correct me and add their own voices. The PPG
options in Softimage are substantially more limited than what Qt offers.
And by 'substantially,' I mean not even in the same category. I can't
possibly cover all the differences, but I can hit some practical highlights:
/Under-the-hood stuff:/
- A great variety of signals for defining more specific callbacks (not
limited to on_clicked() or on_changed())
- Model view programming, to efficiently store and share data across
your UI! This is big!
- The full power of the Qt library, which contains over 400 classes.
- UI files created in QtDesigner can be loaded into any app that runs a
Python Qt library (as far as I know). So it's good for more than just
Softimage stuff.
/
Look-and-feel stuff:/
- Tab Widgets anywhere you want. You're not limited to placing them at
the top
- Buttons defined to look any way you like
- Intelligent 'Layouts' that resize their contents elegantly (including
Slider layouts which can be collapsed)
- Dockable widgets
- Tree views!
- Menu bars!
- Status bar!
- Toolbars!
- Extremely detailed control over the design via CSS.
I could go on, but perhaps we need some people to post more examples to
really demonstrate how useful it is.
*Tim Crowson
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*Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc.
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On 8/29/2012 3:17 PM, piotrek marczak wrote:
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Sorry for stupid question, but what’s advantage of using qt over PPG?
*From:* Tim Crowson <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:12 PM
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage (addon
v1.14: fixesbutton size and adds command to Soft menu)
As a matter of fact, Simon, that's the exact setup I use! I especially
like Eclipse's "interactive debugging", for lack of a better term,
where it instantly highlights syntax errors, unused variables,
undefinied variables, etc. Really speeds things up! So many other
things to like about Eclipse too. So far, my workflow is to create a
new addon directory from Soft, then set that as a PyDev project in
Eclipse. I still use Sublime Text 2 every now and then for one-offs,
but Eclipse my main environment.
*Tim Crowson
*/Lead CG Artist/
*Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc.
*2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214
*Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com
[email protected]
On 8/28/2012 6:25 PM, Simon Anderson wrote:
Im not sure what Dev Environment you are using, but if you use
eclipse and install pyDev for it, when you develop for Qt you get
auto completion, wich can be very helpful.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Ana Gomez <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Life with stylesheet becomes easier when you find this:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/stylesheet-reference.html
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/stylesheet-examples.html
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