precise placement of elements in PySide/PyQT???

[Todd Widup]

is there anything that functions like formLayout in Maya Ui commands in PySide or PyQT that allows exact placement of the UI widget?

looking thru QFormLayout and its parent, I don't see anything that would allow exact placement.

Sorry...just now getting time to really learn PySide..loving what I I see it can do though, and its nice writing a UI that usable in Maya, Mari, and Houdini

thanks

-todd

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[damon shelton]

I always use designer as the basis for all of my guis, they have a grid layout which is very easy to use. Nathan Horne has written a great script called mlib that is written in the basis of using it in maya but you can easily edit it to not solely be used in maya. It allows for directly using the ui files without having to compile them to py beforehand, it does this conversion internally for you. Ui files make it much easier when you have to go in and edit someone else's ui. I know some people on here find it easy to code all of it themselves and there is nothing wrong with that,just personal preference. I just feel it is much easier to use when you are wanting very specific placement and can visualize it while you build it.

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[Eric Thivierge]

Hey Todd,

What kind of problems are you having lining up the widgets where you would like them? Any sample images / code we could help with?

Eric T.

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[Todd Widup]

hey Eric..yeah just want to make sure things line up where I expect them to, and Thanks Damon..will look at it.

no samples yet...just getting ideas before I start writing the gui..need I to match a Maya one I just did

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[Eric Thivierge]

I'd start by making sure you go through any tutorials you can find about creating the GUI's. Also I'd suggest making sure you set the spacing and margins on widgets and layouts to 0 and customize as needed. Stylesheets are helpful too so you can customize the margins, padding, colors, etc easily too.

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[Justin Israel]

The QLayout approach is definitely different than the Maya UI layouts. In the Maya formLayout, you would specify offsets and constraints directly on the added item. In QFormLayout, you can set overall alignments and spacings, and then you can use arbitrary layouts for the rows, to given them unique spacing, margins, and alignment. 

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[Todd Widup]

hey again..yup, been working thru a lot of tutorials, and that was one area where the ones I have found just say you do this and then they move on to building the widgets

thanks Justin...will keep that in mind as I go thru.... will probably just start building it and see how it looks...might just be what I expect :)

is there a place that has a lot of documentation on stylesheets?

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[Justin Israel]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 1:34 PM Todd Widup <todd....@gmail.com> wrote:

hey again..yup, been working thru a lot of tutorials, and that was one area where the ones I have found just say you do this and then they move on to building the widgets

thanks Justin...will keep that in mind as I go thru.... will probably just start building it and see how it looks...might just be what I expect :)

is there a place that has a lot of documentation on stylesheets?

Probably just the stylesheet guide, would be the way to start:

http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/stylesheet-reference.html

It lists all of the things that can be applied to each widget type, as well as all of the properties, states, and controls.

 

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