Fixing old tutorials
I got a mail from a reader telling me that he couldn't download the sources for Notty, the toy app I developed in my Rapid Application development using PyQt and Eric3 ... in realtime! tutorial.
So, I checked and was shocked at just how much the server moves had wrecked that article, which is one of my favourites!
No images, broken link to the sources, no syntax highlights!
So, I rejiggered the thing quickly with some search and replace (thanks restructured text!) and now it should be up to standards, except that... it's still about Qt3 and I am not even sure it works nowadays.
Normally that would be simple to fix: change the code as needed, make it work, and be happy.
But the fun thing about that article was that it was written in 3 hours, and it talks about how it was written in 3 hours. So, I think I may have to do keep that and add a note with a link to a corrected/updated one, someday.
I'm just curious. Do you still use that IDE to write Python code?
Eric4 nowadays, but it's pretty much the same thing.
Is it really worth upgrading to Qt4? I've cooked up some GUIs in Qt3 that I'm pretty happy with.
Maybe. Not sure really.
The bad part is that the tree control and the rich text widget are probably the parts that changed the most between Qt3 and Qt4, so for a Qt4 user this tutorial is woefully inadequate.