Alternative GUI for FreeCAD: Overlayed Layout (Devs needed)

[ickby]

Could you push the rebase to your github repo?

Thats already done. It is not the newest master I rebased to, but should be trival to do it again

Also would you consider bullet pointing what would need to be done to get it working on Qt5?

Hm thats quite a lot and takes time, so I would prever to do this only if someone is willing to work on this.

[Kunda1]

@ickby, understood. Well hopefully this post gets some attention and captivates someone enough to continue your work
Thanks again!

[Kunda1]

ping

Hey @agryson ltns
Would you consider pinning this thread to the UI/UX subdorum?

[Kunda1]

ping

Hey @agryson ltns
Would you consider pinning this thread to the UI/UX subdorum?

ping

@ickby would you consider pinning this thread to the UI/UX subforum?

[regis]

It actually used qt4 and was based on qml. I stopped working on this as qt5 was needed to do real interfaces in qml, and that was not available back than in FreeCAD.

But the code is horrible, I suck at JavaScript

Hey, I loved that layout and always wondered what happened to it. but I'm curious as I don't understand anything about coding yet, but since I have an interest in learning python, and you said that you code this with javascript, my question is, 1. is it possible to code the interface in python? 2. what is the difference between javascript and python, and I though that everything in freecad was coded in python.

[kkremitzki]

It actually used qt4 and was based on qml. I stopped working on this as qt5 was needed to do real interfaces in qml, and that was not available back than in FreeCAD.

But the code is horrible, I suck at JavaScript

Hey, I loved that layout and always wondered what happened to it. but I'm curious as I don't understand anything about coding yet, but since I have an interest in learning python, and you said that you code this with javascript, my question is, 1. is it possible to code the interface in python? 2. what is the difference between javascript and python, and I though that everything in freecad was coded in python.

Here is a good reference to get you started on JS and how it works with Qt: https://qmlbook.github.io/en/ch14/index.html and this chapter talks about QML itself, which you would use to declare the components of the interface: https://qmlbook.github.io/en/ch04/index.html

You can still do UI with Python if you want, I'd say this is better for replacing C++ and .ui (XML) files.

[regis]

It actually used qt4 and was based on qml. I stopped working on this as qt5 was needed to do real interfaces in qml, and that was not available back than in FreeCAD.

But the code is horrible, I suck at JavaScript

Hey, I loved that layout and always wondered what happened to it. but I'm curious as I don't understand anything about coding yet, but since I have an interest in learning python, and you said that you code this with javascript, my question is, 1. is it possible to code the interface in python? 2. what is the difference between javascript and python, and I though that everything in freecad was coded in python.

Here is a good reference to get you started on JS and how it works with Qt: https://qmlbook.github.io/en/ch14/index.html and this chapter talks about QML itself, which you would use to declare the components of the interface: https://qmlbook.github.io/en/ch04/index.html

You can still do UI with Python if you want, I'd say this is better for replacing C++ and .ui (XML) files.

hehe cool, but i still don't understand the difference between language selection, why do you do UI in Javascript if you can do it in python forexample?
and why is python better for replacing C++ etc?

[kkremitzki]

It actually used qt4 and was based on qml. I stopped working on this as qt5 was needed to do real interfaces in qml, and that was not available back than in FreeCAD.

But the code is horrible, I suck at JavaScript

Hey, I loved that layout and always wondered what happened to it. but I'm curious as I don't understand anything about coding yet, but since I have an interest in learning python, and you said that you code this with javascript, my question is, 1. is it possible to code the interface in python? 2. what is the difference between javascript and python, and I though that everything in freecad was coded in python.

Here is a good reference to get you started on JS and how it works with Qt: https://qmlbook.github.io/en/ch14/index.html and this chapter talks about QML itself, which you would use to declare the components of the interface: https://qmlbook.github.io/en/ch04/index.html

You can still do UI with Python if you want, I'd say this is better for replacing C++ and .ui (XML) files.

hehe cool, but i still don't understand the difference between language selection, why do you do UI in Javascript if you can do it in python forexample?
and why is python better for replacing C++ etc?

The advantage is separation of concerns. QML is a lightweight declarative language (check out the examples and compare it to a .ui file in the source code). You can declare the structure of your UI in a simple, easy-to-read format and then separate your heavyweight application logic (written in C++ or Python). So, comparing to web's HTML+CSS+JS, QML is like HTML+CSS and then C++/Python is like JS (although you could do scripting with JS, inside the QML, if you wanted to.)

[pablogil]

Just a ping to help finding someone that feels like continuing the work, I love this UI!

[Kunda1]

Just a ping to help finding someone that feels like continuing the work, I love this UI!

+1 this would be pretty damn amazing