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Questions about using PySide, a Python Qt bindings project.

The PySide project provides LGPL-licensed Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework. PySide Qt bindings allow both free open source and proprietary software development and ultimately aim to support all of the platforms as Qt itself.

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PyQt or PySide - which one to use

I started learning a bit of python and would now like to toy around a bit with gui-building. Qt seems to be a good choice because of its cross-platformishness. Now there seem to be two bindings available: PyQt by Riverbank Computing and PySide,…
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Is it possible to add PyQt4/PySide packages on a Virtualenv sandbox?

I'm using Virtualenv with profit on my development environment with web.py, simplejson and other web oriented packages. I'm going to develop a simple python client using Qt to reuse some Api developed with web.py. Does anybody here had succesfully…
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Is the PySide Slot Decorator Necessary?

I've seen some example code for PySide slots that uses the @QtCore.Slot decorator, and some that does not. Testing it myself, it doesn't seem to make a difference. Is there a reason I should or should not use it? For example, in the following…
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How to set QComboBox to item from item's text in PyQt/PySide

Is it possible to set QComboBox to an item knowing only an item's text value? I am trying to avoid looping through for i in range(myCombobox.count()) just to find an item's index so it could be used to set the current index.
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MVC design with Qt Designer and PyQt / PySide

Python newbie coming from Java (+SWT/Windowbuilder) and am having difficulty working out how to properly code a large desktop app in Python/Qt4(QtDesigner)/PySide. I would like to keep any view logic in a controller class outside the .ui file (and…
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Loading QtDesigner's .ui files in PySide

I am looking for a simple example of how to directly load a QtDesigner generated .ui file into a Python application. I simply would like to avoid using pyuic4.
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PySide / PyQt detect if user trying to close window

is there a way to detect if user trying to close window? For example, in Tkinter we can do something like this: def exit_dialog(): #do stuff pass root = Tk() root.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", exit_dialog) root.mainloop() Thanks.
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How do i resize the contents of a QScrollArea as more widgets are placed inside

I have a QScrollArea Widget, which starts empty; It has a vertical layout, with a QGridLayout, and a vertical spacer to keep it at the top, and prevent it from stretching over the whole scroll area; Elsewhere in the program, there is a QTextEdit,…
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How to add items to a QComboBox in PyQt/PySide

I need some help adding some items to a QComboBox. So I have two comboboxes, and one populates the other depending on the item selected. My question is that, using additem for new items, it works, but if I choose another option for the combobox, it…
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Are there default icons in PyQt/PySide?

I'm reading a tutorial on PySide and I was thinking , do I need to find my own icons for every thing or is there some way to use some built in icons . That way I wouldn't need to find an entire new set of icons if I want my little gui to run on…
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Prototyping Qt/C++ in Python

I want to write a C++ application with Qt, but build a prototype first using Python and then gradually replace the Python code with C++. Is this the right approach, and what tools (bindings, binding generators, IDE) should I use? Ideally, everything…
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PySide: Removing a widget from a layout

I'm trying to remove a Qt widget from a layout in a PySide application. Here is a minimal example. It is a widget with 5 buttons in it, and the middle one is supposed to remove itself when clicked: import sys from PySide import QtGui app =…
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PySide - PyQt : How to make set QTableWidget column width as proportion of the available space?

I'm developing a computer application with PySide and I'm using the QTableWidget. Let's say my table has 3 columns, but the data they contain is very different, like (for each row) a long sentence in the first column, then 3-digit numbers in the two…
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QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to QWidget "", which already has a layout

I want to create some tabs, and I read this answer: How to add a tab in PySide I use the code in the answer and made some changes. Cause my code has to read some files and get the name of my tabs from those file, so that I add a for loop in my code.…
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Getting PySide to work with matplotlib

I have tried running the example code on the SciPy website, but I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File ".\matplotlibPySide.py", line 24, in win.setCentralWidget(canvas) TypeError:…
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