On Tuesday 17 August 2010, 21:00:29 Bernard Van Der Stichele wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm looking for some advice as to the best way of implementing an MDI - > like application which is modular. > i.e. I want to have a MainWindow host with a menu which dynamically loads > a list of modules available at start-up; where each module is simply a > different dialog window interface (QDialog). The idea is deploy my > application so that I may, in the future, expand its functionality by > adding new dialogs as needed (e.g. e-mailing the users one or more files > which can be dropped in the app directory) > > My first simplistic idea was to have the host application look for > available ui_xxx.py files in the application directory at start-up to > populate the list of available dialogs, using a suitable naming > convention. > > However, I ultimately need to deploy an executable host application to > the users and am not sure how if it still would allow me to load > ui_xxx.py files dynamically. > > I welcome any suggestions ... there must be a much better way of building > a modular app..
Did you noticed Phils latest project: dip? While in the early stages of an application framework, it already includes much functionality of what you seem to be after.. http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/dip/intro Pete _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
