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Create GUI for RPi

gihu

Hi all,

 

I need to create GUI for the raspberry pi3 and I do not know where to start.

What I prefere is to use something like visual basic or visual studio.

I need advice of how to do it, I have seen that it exists Lazarus that can run natively on RPi, but it is supposed to work on Pi1.

Would you mind suggesting me which possibilities I have? Of Course, cross-compile can be an option, but I prefer no to make a complicated setup by now, so cross-compiling It would be nice if it is under Win10 (the OS running on my laptop)

 

Regards,

Miguel

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  • Hi,

    I would suggest to use Qt4 Designer suite with PyQt library in python as most of the members suggested. earlier I have also wondered a lot for GUI development but Qt4 Designer it became simpler.......you can use use this easily in any linux distros or x86 based OS....it works very well.....with this you go from normal GUI app development to a complex one as well...........

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    Amit,

    The best way to develop with Qt is installing Qt5.x suite. It is fundamental in my opinion to approach Qt 5.5 (or, better 5.6) because there are big changes and all in positive respect the last 4.8 versions. Finally the Qt 5.5 and up versions have removed the QtWebKit that was a total issue with incredible difficulties to compile by itself as it was a sort of add-on package. Especially for the embedded devices. In Qt 5.5 the external WebKit has been definitely replaced by the QtwebEngine that is Qt native. But - just for the essential changes - has a incredible difference that is an advantage but also a mess for porting: QtWebEngine is Chrome based and multithreaded by default.

     

    The mix that you suggest of Qt and Python, trust me, it is not the best solution but it seems the easiest. I am working just to reorganise a package due this kind of approach that it is not the definitive winning solution. Please be patient, I am preparing a first series of articles that just try to put some order in the better way to connect Python, PyQt5.5 and Qt 5.5.1 for start.

     

    Enrico

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    Amit,

    The best way to develop with Qt is installing Qt5.x suite. It is fundamental in my opinion to approach Qt 5.5 (or, better 5.6) because there are big changes and all in positive respect the last 4.8 versions. Finally the Qt 5.5 and up versions have removed the QtWebKit that was a total issue with incredible difficulties to compile by itself as it was a sort of add-on package. Especially for the embedded devices. In Qt 5.5 the external WebKit has been definitely replaced by the QtwebEngine that is Qt native. But - just for the essential changes - has a incredible difference that is an advantage but also a mess for porting: QtWebEngine is Chrome based and multithreaded by default.

     

    The mix that you suggest of Qt and Python, trust me, it is not the best solution but it seems the easiest. I am working just to reorganise a package due this kind of approach that it is not the definitive winning solution. Please be patient, I am preparing a first series of articles that just try to put some order in the better way to connect Python, PyQt5.5 and Qt 5.5.1 for start.

     

    Enrico

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