Development Environment

Requirements

On Windows you need to install git and gitbash console.

On Unix like systems you need: git, bash and gettext.

# On debian based distributions
apt install bash git gettext

Preparation

Open a bash console. On Windows, right click on Desktop (or the folder you want), Click "open GitBash here".

# This is the python version installed here
$ python --version
Python 3.8.5

Create a project folder

mkdir mypygubu-project
cd mypygubu-project

Create a virtual environment called venv

python -m venv venv

Activate virtual environment

# Windows:
source ./venv/Scripts/activate
# Unix like:
source venv/bin/activate

Clone pygubu-designer repository (Or your own fork of pygubu-designer repo)

git clone https://github.com/alejandroautalan/pygubu-designer.git

Change to pygubu-designer folder, and install it in developer mode

cd pygubu-designer
pip install -e ./

Generate PO files for developer mode

./pygubudesigner.sh msgf

Run designer

python -m pygubudesigner

At the end, your project structure should look as follows:

mypygubu-project/
├── pygubu-designer
│   ├── examples
│   ├── pygubudesigner
│   ├── pygubu_designer.egg-info
│   └── requirements
└── venv

Start coding.