Black Adder and PyQt

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Ron Stephens wrote:

> I am thinking of buying a "home" license of Black Adder, to use for
> making GUI's for Python programs to be used on Linux+KDE and also
> perhaps for the new Sharp Zaurus. Does anyone have any experience with
> Black Adder that they can share? One of my main reasons for wanting
> Black Adder is to use the GUI builder, so I am particualrly interested
> in opinions about that aspect of Black Adder, but I am also interested
> in other aspects as well.
> 
> One question I have concerns licensing. If I buy the "home" version,
> could I still share my programs as GPL'ed open source, or would that
> require me to buy the "professional" license, which is much more
> expensive? In other words, my programs would never be used in any
> commercial way but I might want to post them as open source, free
> software.
> 
> I know Black Adder is still in beta, but is it stable enoough to use
> already? I suppose I should ask how it compares to PythonWare amd
> WingIDE, but I kind of favor the PyQt toolkit becuase it will
> hopefully work well on the Sharp Zaurus as well as the KDE desktop.


I think WingIDE is a better IDE -- but it doesn't include the GUI 
designer. The gui designer is, in fact, just the Qt Designer as included 
with Qt, so you could you use that, but you'd lose all the nice integration.

With the latest version of PyQt, you can compile Qt 3 .ui files to Python,
too, but that's not part of BlackAdder yet.

Have you seen that my book on PyQt and BlackAdder is out? You can order
it at opendocs.org (never mind that the website still says it's in
final copy-edit -- copies are shipping now, only Joshua is a bit slow
updating), or read it online. But the paper copy is very pleasant 
possession :-).

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