formlayout

Python module providing the most easy way to create Qt form dialogs and widgets

With formlayout, generating a form is very easy:

• To show a dialog box, just call the fedit function.
• To set-up the form dialog, simply use lists to pass parameters (field names, default values, ...).
• To embedd formlayout in your own library, just copy the formlayout autoconsistent single script (zero dependency, except Qt itself).

See documentation for more details (mostly examples) on the library and changelog for recent history of changes.

Overview

Graphical user interface (GUI) libraries are usually designed to address issues which are far more complex than a simple dialog box. As a consequence, generating simple form layouts or dialogs is generally not as easy as it should be: the feature-line count ratio is very low for the most simple dialog boxes.

Within this context, formlayout provides the absolute minimum API required to create form dialog boxes (or layouts). To show a dialog box, simply call the fedit function. To set-up the dialog box, just use lists to pass the required parameters (field names, default values, ...).

Simple Example

With formlayout, generating a form is very easy. Here is a simple example (more are included in source package):

from formlayout import fedit
datalist = [('Name', 'Paul'),
            (None, None),
            (None, 'Information:'),
            ('Age', 30),
            ('Sex', [0, 'Male', 'Female']),
            ('Size', 12.1),
            ('Eyes', 'green'),
            ('Married', True),
            ]
fedit(datalist, title="Describe yourself", comment="This is just an <b>example</b>.")

Installation

The only requirements are Python and Qt:

• Python >=2.6 or Python >=3.2
• PyQt4 >=4.4 or PyQt5 >= 5.5 or PySide

Installation from the source package is straightforward:

python setup.py install