QT Creator - layout

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OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.16131 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-18
Hash: 3129ae4296e40ed20e7b3d460b86e6969acbe1c3
Python version: 3.6.6
Qt version: 5.6.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/Australia (en_AU)

Hi guys,
getting into Qt Creator....

I have done a layout in Creator.

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I then populate part of it from a macro.

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for doco in FreeCAD.listDocuments(): 
            if not self.DC.nameIsActive("doco", doco):
               continue
                        
            fromDocoName = QtGui.QLabel(doco)
            font = fromDocoName.font()
            font.setPointSize(10)
            font.setWeight(100)
            font.setStyle(QtGui.QFont.StyleItalic)
            fromDocoName.setFont(font)
            toDocoName = QtGui.QLabel(doco)
            toDocoName.setFont(fromDocoName.font())
            addDoco = True

            sheetList = FreeCAD.getDocument(doco).findObjects()
            for sheet in sheetList:   
                sheetName = sheet.Label
                
                if not self.DC.nameIsActive("sheet", sheetName):
                   continue 
 
                if addDoco == True:                        
                    self.form.sheetsFrom.addWidget(fromDocoName, x)
                    self.form.sheetsTo.addWidget(toDocoName, x)
                    addDoco = False

                fromRB = QtGui.QRadioButton(sheetName)
                fromRB.accessibleName = doco
                fromRB.clicked.connect(self.fromButtonClicked)
                self.form.sheetsFrom.addWidget(fromRB, x)
                self.DC.fromSheetsGroup.addButton(fromRB)

                toRB = QtGui.QRadioButton(sheetName)
                toRB.accessibleName = doco
                toRB.clicked.connect(self.toButtonClicked)
                self.form.sheetsTo.addWidget(toRB, x)
                self.DC.toSheetsGroup.addButton(toRB)

The code seems to be putting the correct values in.
The problem is, I am losing some of the layout from creator. Well, possibly not losing it, but it is not visible.

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Also, how to eliminate the excessive spacing. I believe this is all controlled from the Creator file, and possible overwritten in the macro.
But am at a loss what is needed.

Sorry for the, probably trivial, questions.

Cheers,
Gary.

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OK,
I discovered that by changing

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addWidget(fromRB, x)

to (several places)

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addWidget(fromRB)

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Cheers.

[Kunda1]

good job

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Thanks for the feedback.

This is my first foray into Freecad macros and Qt Creator.

Appears I have made some progress (based on other spreadsheet tools I found).

The idea isn't all that new just a bit different as a learning exercise. To use the macro, it needs a/multiple documents with one/many spreadsheets open. Selection of sheet cells, options etc. should be made before selecting the sheets via the popup menu. Can be done later (as prompted, but as a starter).

The macro code will need to be pointed at the .ui file. (line 261 n mine is -
path_to_ui = "C:\\Users\\user\\appData\\Roaming\\FreeCad\\Macro\\spreadSheetAssistant.ui"

Any feedback is welcome (I am aware the comments etc. need quite a bit of work, am mainly interested in coding suggestions).
Thanks everyone,
Gary.

PS. any suggestions for an icon would be appreciated as well.

[Kunda1]

I'll take a look at this soon. Thanks for your work so far!

[Kunda1]

PS. any suggestions

Do you mind pushing this macro up to a github repo so we can quickly kick it around. One thing would be useful is to put this macro within it's own directory along with the .ui file. And then instead of hardcoding a Windows OS path like you do on line 261,

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class assistantPanel:
    path_to_ui = "C:\\Users\\user\\appData\\Roaming\\FreeCad\\Macro\\spreadSheetAssistant.ui"

We can make this macro cross-platform by searching FreeCAD's default macro directory.

[sgrogan]

We can make this macro cross-platform by searching FreeCAD's default macro directory.

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p=FreeCAD.ParamGet("User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/Macro")
path_to_ui = p.GetString("MacroPath") + "/spreadSheetAssistant.ui"

[Kunda1]

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p=FreeCAD.ParamGet("User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/Macro")
path_to_ui = p.GetString("MacroPath") + "/spreadSheetAssistant.ui"

Edit: though the forward slash wouldn't be Windows compliant..right ?

[sgrogan]

Edit: though the forward slash wouldn't be Windows compliant..right ?

Windows will take \, \\, /

[vocx]

Edit: though the forward slash wouldn't be Windows compliant..right ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash

MS-DOS 2.0, released 1983, copied the hierarchical file system from Unix and thus used the (forward) slash[9] but (possibly on the insistence of IBM[10]) added the backslash to allow paths to be typed at the command line interpreter's prompt... Except for COMMAND.COM, all other parts of the operating system accept both characters in a path, but the Microsoft convention remains to use a backslash, ...

The Microsoft Windows family of operating systems inherited the MS-DOS behavior and so still support either character – but individual Windows programs and sub-systems may, wrongly, only accept the backslash as a path delimiter, or may misinterpret a forward slash if it is used as such. ...

Microsoft originally used the forward slash, like Unix. Only later the backslash became more prominent.