On Oct 11, 3:31 pm, David Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 11 October 2008 11:19, lkcl wrote: > > > pyqt4 has the concept of layouts. a layout can be a horizontal > > layout, vertical, grid, and you can even specify the percentage or > > ratio of the width (or height) that individual cells can use. you > > attach a layout to a widget; you can attach layouts to layouts. you > > can remove layouts from widgets. what you _can't_ do is _remove_ > > layouts from layouts. > > You can remove layouts from layouts with the QLayout.removeItem() method.
yes... it didn't work. a layout within a layout - i think it was a QHorizontalLayout within a QGridLayout - didn't want to be removed. it's probably a bug. > These days, you'd probably use PyQt4's WebKit integration for HTML > rendering, anyway, though I imagine that it doesn't help you much if > you're already using WebKit directly. [see below...] > You can write your own layouts as well, but maybe that's more work than > you're prepared to do, definitely. > especially now that you seem to have settled on > WebKit as your toolkit. well, it just made vast amounts of sense - cut out all the middle men. if you're going to pull in a 17mb binary dependency, why do it in a clumsy way? in order to pull in flash plugins and other material, the accepted method in pygtk2 is to use python-gtk-mozplugger. that's crazy. embed an _entire_ web browser, just to pull in a flash component. likewise, for doing a single bit of HTML, in pyqt4 and/or pygtk2, pull in a 17mb binary dependency using python-webkit-qt4 and/or pywebkitgtk, _just_ to display _one_ bit of HTML text?? _that's_ crazy. especially as webkit actually has far better rendering capability, features and flexibility than any of the standard desktop widget sets which had been designed for the job! wonderfully ironic... oh - for completeness, if anyone's reading this and goes "no chance i will _ever_ convert to the pyjamas API because i've spent so much time writing pygtk2 apps" - there is a project by luis pamirez, where he has _reimplemented_ gtk.py, gobject.py and gdk.py to sit _on top_ of the pyjamas DOM model. at present, it's only available in the subversion repository of http://code.google.com, and you'll need to check out a revision some time around sep 2007 of the llpamies branch. basically, what that will give you is a means to run your pygtk2 applications... in a web browser! very cool. i'll do a port to pyjamas-desktop at some time, if i have a need for it, and will be happy to help guide anyone who wants to spend the time on it themselves. > especially now that you seem to have settled on WebKit as your toolkit. well, it's not _my_ toolkit - i just use it. but you're right inasmuch as i won't be initiating any new applications using pyqt4 or pygtk2, not out of personal choice, anyway. l. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
