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As someone who works with Windows forms, I'm wondering where the visual designer to place widgets is.
If you use the PyQT-provided wheels and/or you don'want to mess with the whole Qt, then you can separately install QtCreator, which is very simple and embeds QtDesigner.
We use Qt heavily at Starsky Robotics. We initially used it because it has tight integration with ROS via RQT [1], but I'm pretty impressed with the framework in general. Lots of great tools out of the box, QtCreator is awesome and once you get the right signal/slot model in your head everything is a breeze. Plus getting to prototyping in python is always fast! For our use case, relative speed of the GUI isn't a fact…
I've been using wxPython for many years, and it works very well. What are the advantages of PyQT over wxPython? Anyone experienced both 'worlds' in a non-trivial application?
2. QML is an amazing language. It is modern, declarative and reactive but still very simple to use. Personally I don't want to go back to the traditional GUI coding styles after experienced QML.
3. Qt Designer is a great GUI tool that you can quickly prototype a GUI app.
4. Qt has the best documentation among cross-platform GUI frameworks.
5. Qt is a much bigger framework having more features. For example, you can easily embed WebKit or Chromium very easily.
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> Why would I want to switch to Qt? Because GTK is awful outside of Linux.
Is it? Why? Works fine for me.
Qt looks at least a magnitude better (more native) on those platforms
Anybody know if it's easy to reverse engineer or strip parts of the application when deploying PyQt5 apps? Or do you need extra measures to obfuscate the code to protect certain logic?
I've never tried it but given Python's interpreted nature, it is likely pretty easy unless you use an obfuscator. Note that that's true for Java .class files as well. I was really surprised once when I tried to decompile one of my own that I had thought would be safe. You get near-perfect accuracy.
I gave up on QT and decided instead to invest time learning javascript frameworks, which provide a lot more flexibility for creating apps.
Flexibility to do what, though? I'm genuinely curious: what doesn't Qt offer that a desktop app might need?
I gave up on QT and decided instead to invest time learning javascript frameworks, which provide a lot more flexibility for creating apps.
Qt had layouts years before html got the flexbox and gridbox too so I don't think there is a feature in html that is missing in Qt, Qt also includes QtWebkit if you ever need say to display some html or run some JS so basically you have access to native libraries and to JS/HTML if you need.
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> Why would I want to switch to Qt? Because GTK is awful outside of Linux.
I'd argue GTK is awful inside of Linux because of client-side decorations (removal of the standard title-bar) that you cannot disable, removal of the menu bar, and the mobile/tablet first design (some people do use desktops and I'm not allergic to text).
I like the tutorial, but I don't know why you would use PyQt these days. Tkinter is more permissive and has wrappers like appJar which make it disgustingly easy to put together a quick, ugly GUI. If you're building a desktop app that needs to really look good and be fast, why are you using Python?
Anybody know if it's easy to reverse engineer or strip parts of the application when deploying PyQt5 apps? Or do you need extra measures to obfuscate the code to protect certain logic?
I've never tried it but given Python's interpreted nature, it is likely pretty easy unless you use an obfuscator. Note that that's true for Java .class files as well. I was really surprised once when I tried to decompile one of my own that I had thought would be safe. You get near-perfect accuracy.