Introduction

Build tools to compile and generate QT qresource files and .ui files at build time (Pyside).

Are you tired of maintaining a qresource files and converting .ui? Then your at the right place. PysideSetupMacro converts all qresource files and .ui files for you at build time. All you have to do is to import the module in your setup.py and use it.

example

from setuptools import find_packages, setup

from pyside_setup_macro import QtBuildPackage, QtBuildDevelop


setup(
    ...,
    cmdclass={"build_py": QtBuildPackage, "develop": QtBuildDevelop},  # This is all you need to add.
)

If your lazy like me and don't want to maintain a qresource file then I have introduced qmacro.

The qmacro has 2 parts. A mandatory name of the qresource file to be created.

name="resource"  # Name of resource file to be created.

A built-in function call for creating the resources.

add_files("*.png", prefix="/images")  # Individually specify the prefixes.

With the following dir structure you can create the resource file in 2 ways.

├── __init__.py
├── flags
│   ├── denmark.png
│   ├── norway.png
│   └── sweden.png
├── pen.png
└── qmacro

Option 1

qmacro

name = "qresource"
add_files("flags/*.png", prefix="flags")
add_files("*.png")

Resulting qresource file

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<RCC>
   <qresource prefix="">
      <file alias="pen.png">pen.png</file>
   </qresource>
   <qresource prefix="flags">
      <file alias="denmark.png">flags/denmark.png</file>
      <file alias="norway.png">flags/norway.png</file>
      <file alias="sweden.png">flags/sweden.png</file>
   </qresource>
</RCC>

Option 2

qmacro

name = "qresource"
walk()

Resulting qresource file

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<RCC>
   <qresource prefix="">
      <file alias="pen.png">pen.png</file>
   </qresource>
   <qresource prefix="flags">
      <file alias="denmark.png">flags/denmark.png</file>
      <file alias="norway.png">flags/norway.png</file>
      <file alias="sweden.png">flags/sweden.png</file>
   </qresource>
</RCC>

Examples

Example apps that use PySideSetupMacro.

• email app
• scandinavian flag picker
• ui file app