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the fact that PyQT free version is GPL and commercial is 500 dollars which sits of course on top of the commercial version of QTÂ There is an alternative to PyQt, that the Qt company intends to make a first-class citizen of the Qt ecosystem, namely PySide(2). The project languished after Nokia sold Qt to what is know "The Qt Company", but development is ongoing again. For details, see https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2 and https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pyside-dev/pqwzngAGLWE/kXUpXBhILAAJ For the record, I do not use PySide (or PyQt for that matter) and I do not know what the current status is of this endeavor.
Kind regards, Pieter. On Friday, June 2, 2017 10:02 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote: There is a way to make this into a small task One of my experiments of testing my Pharo to Python bridge (What I have named project "Atlas") was to  build a QT hello world example. It created a problem because I was using python threads that QT does not like (it offers its own kind of threads) but after changing the code to use no threads, it worked. My bridge is not like UFFI where anything has to be wrapped because unlike C , Python is a dynamic language so there is no need for wrappers because Atlas allows dynamic execution of code. But of course there is the issues of data types and how they can be mapped to Pharo and the fact that PyQT free version is GPL and commercial is 500 dollars which sits of course on top of the commercial version of QT. So at the time I decided to not pursue it. I will give it a try and see how far it can goes, at worst I may offer a partial solution to using QT with Pharo. Then someone else can take it from there if there is genuine interest and expand it to more features.  On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:01 AM Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com> wrote: Hi dimitris We would love to have that. We could have a Spec binding and build automatically applications in QT for people willing. Esteban always wanted to have a Cocoa binding used the same way. But this is large task Stef On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Hilaire <hilaire@drgeo.eu> wrote: A must for any serious dekstop application with Pharo, but it is a hudge task Le 29/05/2017 à 14:35, Dimitris Chloupis a écrit :
Is there an interest for working with QT from Pharo ? I make no promises just something I was interested in trying.
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