Comments on: My Second Ever Useful GUI Program

By: It’s A Binary World 2.0 » Creating Nice-Looking Buttons in QML on KDE

It’s A Binary World 2.0 » Creating Nice-Looking Buttons in QML on KDE — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:02:59 +0000

[...] Nice-Looking Buttons in QML on KDE Back in October I created a GUI for my Python amortization table program. One of the things I lamented was that the buttons in QML look like crap. I want my buttons to [...]

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:06:28 +0000

Thanks for that, but it appears, from that link, that it still has some time to go before it’s part of the QML release

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:45:47 +0000

I think your answer lies somewhere between “Plasma components” (if your QML thingie is a plasmoid) and “Desktop components” if it’s a desktop program.

For instance: http://blog.qt.digia.com/2012/06/06/desktop-components-for-qt-5/

Cheers!!

By: DDeine

DDeine — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:47:14 +0000

In a similar situation I chose HTML and Javascript to solve the problem quicker and easier. With HTML and Javascript you can even add features such as printing/sharing output quite easy.

Some people were finding a particular Electric Circuits lab difficult so I knocked up a tool (because I was annoyed) in half an hour to help other people out:
http://stuff.ddevnet.net/deltaresistor/

Quick, easy, portable (doesn’t even need hosting), sharable.
I wish there was another open and portable GUI toolkit that was easier to rapidly prototype in other than HTML…