qtlayoutbuilder

Quick Summary

A python library that works with PySide to make it VERY much quicker and easier to develop (and evolve) GUIs.

Key Goals:

• Faster workflow for the developer (than existing choices)
• Simple
• Instant visual feedback of your GUI during development
• Make layouts easier to change
• Operate at runtime; no compile+integrate steps
• Direct, programmatic access to all objects created
• Practical to introduce piecemeal to existing code
• No interference with standard Qt workings

Licence

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Making a Real Simple GUI

from qtlayoutbuilder.api.build import build_from_multi_line_string

layouts_created = build_from_multi_line_string("""
    top_widget            QWidget
      rows                QVBoxLayout
        greeting          QLabel(Welcome to QtBuilder)
        some_buttons      QHBoxLayout
          button_a        QPushButton(Hello)
          button-b        QPushButton(World)
""")
layouts_created.at('top_widget').show()

A More Realistic Example

You can see the input file for this GUI here.

Instant Feedback

QtLayoutBuilder comes with a tool to give you instant feedback while you are editing input files during development.

It monitors every edit you make to your input file, and shows you the result immediately like this (below) without you having to leave your editor or do anything.

Getting started

User Manual