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Stéphane
Stéphane

Reputation: 1344

appearance of my GUI in several OS

I would like to check the appearance of my GUI while coding, for several OS where it should be distributed.

How can I do ?

The problem is that the ‘previsualisation’ proposed by QT Designer is very different from the appearance of the distributed release. I even have spots in tabs that appear with same font and size in ‘previsualisation’ but have different sizes on Windows... I work with: python 3.5, a GUI designed with QT Designer, developed on mac OS 10.11 and shared with Windows 7 and Windows 10 systems (installed with a recent pyinstaller)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 65

Answers (2)

Stéphane
Stéphane

Reputation: 1344

ok. For the moment, I developed a ui file for each OS and test the appearance "for real". That's awkward and, moreover, in a given ui file, some strings that have exactly the same apparent properties in Qt Designer may appear differently in the final release

Upvotes: 0

Matteo Italia
Matteo Italia

Reputation: 126867

The preview uses some approximation of the final style drawn completely by Qt, but the style used "for real" in most platform plug-ins either employs real, native widgets, or emulates them asking for theme parts straight from the machine where it's running. So, it's not possible to have a completely faithful preview unless you use a style that is always drawn completely by Qt (such as Fusion).

Long story short: to see how your application will really look on different platforms you'll have to test it "for real".

Upvotes: 2

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