Advice on compiling .ui files/Improve support for .ui files

Hi,

I’m the author of this project that uses PySide2.

I would like to migrate completely to qtpy but I’m facing some issues when compiling the .ui files.

I’ve noticed that If I compile the .uifiles with the commands provided by PySide2, then change the .pyincludes to use qtpy and then run the project with PySide6, some elements do not transfer well.

I think that the main issue is that I do not have a cross-qt compiler of the .uifiles to .py that are fully compatible with qtpy.

Is there some advise on how to handle this?

[zkovari]

Hi @dalthviz, yeah, I could take a look.

Btw, I don’t think this properly supports PySide2 either. It seems to me that pyside2uic.compileUi was only available until 5.13.2. Someone mentioned in the linked issue that pytside2-uic was brought back in 5.14.2.2, and I assume that’s true (I don’t know PySide that much). The latest PySide version indeed has the pytside2-uic CLI, but it doesn’t have the compileUi API.

So I wonder if there are multiple issues, as qtpy uic.compileUi behaves differently per each version:

• PySide2 < 5.14: works fine
• PySide2 >= 5.14: doesn’t work because the module is missing (although pytside2-uic is available, perhaps only from 5.14.2.2 - to be checked)
• PySide6: no attempt to support atm, so it doesn’t work

But I could take a deeper look later.

[dalthviz]

Just in case, maybe this could be interesting: https://github.com/hmaarrfk/qtpy-tools/