Intro to UQtie

The basic point of UQtie is to make it easy to create a simple GUI app that supports some useful features that I typically want. So far, these are:

• Window geometry persistence - you resize and reposition the window, then quit the app. Next time you start the app, it starts with the size and position you chose.
• Font selection through a Font Dialog
• Zoom in and Zoom out - you use CTRL-+ and CTRL– to make text, widgets and borders larger or smaller
• Qt Stylesheet (QSS) support that doesn’t preclude runtime changes to look and feel attributes (e.g. font)

These are obviously not all the features you might want your app to have. I intend to add more features as time goes on.

Most of the features are obtained simply by making your main window a subclass of UqtWin.MainWindow instead of PyQt5.QtWidgets.QMainWindow. See Main Application Window.

These are the modules in the UQtie package:

Module Name	Purpose
UqtMav UqtWin UqtStylesheet	UqtMavConn allows easy use of pymavlink connections in Qt app MainWindow class provides an app main window with features Allows app to maintain a QSS file with variable properties - a “poor man’s SASS”

UqtMav is not particularly generic, but I have written a handful of little MAVLink tools, so MAVLink is generic for me