[Pyqt-mac-list] qt tools launch

[Boris G. <bor...@gm...>]

Greetings all -

Have been out of the loop for a while but thought I'd see what  
progress eric3 on mac os x had made and delighted to see some binaries.
Sad however that it is not at a usable stage yet due to serious  
crashes at inopportune times like creating a new file or redrawing  
the screen.

I did however notice that an old bug still seemed to be active in  
eric3 (failure to launch of designer, linguist, assistant on mac os x  
from eric).
Detlev came up with a solution to this for me a while ago so was  
surprised to see it still happening.
Not sure if this is still a problem in the recent versions but the  
latest mac binary pkg still has it.

Solution :
In UserInterface.py (in UI) in method handleDesigner /  
handleLinguist / handleAssistant add this extra case after the win32  
check:

         elif sys.platform == "darwin":
                 print("DARWIN SYSTEM!")
                 designer = designer + os.path.join('.app',  
'Contents', 'MacOS', 'designer')


Works a charm now ... eg can double click forms in eric project and  
designer loads with that form to edit.

Now to attack the real bugs stopping eric being a great mac IDE !

regards
borg000