[scribus-dev] Add-In Development Documentation

[Owen]

> On 1/27/2012 8:36 PM, Owen wrote:
>> With regard to scripting queries, have you perused;
>>
>> Help->Manual->For Developers
>>
>> If you get stuck trying to understand the API, have a look at some
>> of
>> the examples in http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Category:Scripts
>>
>> All the html for the help, Help->Manual->Documentation, is in the
>> share directory, share/doc/scribus/en/ of your Scribus installation
>>
>> As for render frames, see Help->Manual->Documentation->Scribus
>> basics->Working with Render frames
>>
>> I also draw your attention to Help->manual->other
>> information->Documentation Copyright
>>
>> Wish you well with the project, with the plethora of iPhones,
>> tablets, eBook readers as well as mundane monitors, I often think
>> the way to go is HTML5 + css(3?)
>>
>> Sorry if you knew all this in the first place.
> Thanks for the links and the suggestions. I gave the documentation a
> cursory glance, but didn't dive into it nearly as deeply as I should
> have. I've found the answers to many of my questions. The only one
> which
> stumps me is how to get PyQt and extension scripts to behave on
> Windows.
> (I haven't yet started to experiment on Mac OS X or on Linux, though
> that's where I'm headed next.)
>
> I tried the hello-qt example in the documentation, but was unable to
> get
> it to work.  It gives an error when saying that the qt module doesn't
> exist. I tried more traditional PyQt import statements and PySide
> statements, but I wasn't able to get any of them to work. It looks as
> though Scribus ships its own interpreter on Windows and I'm not sure
> how
> to get it to interact with my system Python, PyQt, or PySide.
>
> Do you know what the status of extension scripts on Windows is? I've
> got
> a pretty good handle on how I need to structure everything else.


I plead ignorance as to Windows know how. Maybe there are others that
use it.

If you are heading anywhere, maybe go to a Linux as they invariably
have painless installation tools.




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Owen