1.1

A generic welcome window for PySide and PyQt applications.

It display a list of recent files/documents and a list of quick start actions (icons associated with a text).

The purpose of this python package is to provide a class to quickly create nice looking home window to use in any PySide applications.

It comes with two color scheme, a white/light gray theme (default) and a dark color scheme.

Since version 1.0 the welcome window is just a regular QWidget that you can drop wherever you want, in a stacked widget for example

The software is licensed under the LGPL version 3 as specificied in the file COPYING.

Requires python-setuptools and python-pyside to be installed.

From pypi:

sudo easy_install QWelcomeWindow

or from source:

python setup.py install

You can run the example script by running the following command:

QWelcomeWindow_Example

Here is an example sample code:

import qwelcomewindow

# create the widget, give it the app name, icon and a color scheme (you can
# create your own)
widget = qwelcomewindow.QWelcomeWidget(app_name="Your app name",
    app_icon:QIcon("Your_AppIcon.png"),
    color_scheme=qwelcomewindow.ColorScheme())

# add a recent action
widget.add_action(qwelcomewindow.QWelcomeWidget.ActionType.Recent,
    "~/file.dat", QIcon("Your_fileIcon.png"))

# add a quick start action
widget.add_action(qwelcomewindow.QWelcomeWidget.ActionType.QuickStart,
    "Create a new file", QIcon("Your_newFileIcon.png"))

# connect to the widget signals
widget.recent_action_triggered.connect(self.on_recent_clicked)
widget.quick_start_action_triggered.connect(self.on_quick_start_clicked)

# add the widget to your ui, for example:
self.ui.stackedWidget.insertWidget(0, widget)

QWelcomeWindow requires QString and QVariant API v2. If you are using PyQt, import qwelcomewindow before any other PyQt modules or setup the sip api yourself before importing qwelcomewindow.

There are two ways to select a specific qt bindings:

• import PySide or import PyQt4 before import QWelcomeWindow
• append ["--pyside"] or ["--pyqt"] to sys.argv