13.3. Developing the GUI¶
The main functionality is implemented in gui.py
. The windows are defined in the
auto-generated hypnotoad_mainWindow.py
and hypnotoad_preferences.py
files, and
hand-coded matplotlib_widget.py
. The executable hypnotoad-gui
is an ‘entry-point’
defined in setup.py
, implemented in the __main__.py
file.
The hypnotoad_mainWindow.py
file is auto-generated from the hypnotoad_mainWindow.ui
file. hypnotoad_mainWindow.ui
is produced by, and can be edited by, the qtcreator
program, which should be available from your Linux distro’s package manager.
$ qtcreator hypnotoad_mainWindow.ui
To generate the hypnotoad_mainWindow.py file, need pyside2 installed as well as Qt.py. Run:
$ pyside2-uic hypnotoad_mainWindow.ui -o hypnotoad_mainWindow.py
$ python -m Qt --convert hypnotoad_mainWindow.py
The second step converts from a pyside2-specific file to one using Qt.py which can run with pyside, pyside2, PyQt4 or PyQt5.
Similarly the hypnotoad_preferences.py
is generated from the
hypnotoad_preferences.ui
file.