This is a development version of cadnano ported to Qt5/PyQt5
A number of organizational and style changes have occured from cadnano 2
- cadnano can be run in python without Qt installed at all
- Python 3 compatible
- no more camel-case'd variables
- QUndoCommands are broken out to their own modules
- added a STL generator to generate models for 3D printing
- Maya code removed.
- Added ability to take advantage of
pyqtdeploytool to build standalone versions that can be destributed as binary - stablized code base so fewer crashes
The only additional burden for development on this code base is installing PyQt5
to use the GUI which is not a one click situation. Fortunately pyqtdeploy
should make this a problem for only people who want to hack on the code base.
to run:
python bin/main.py
the requirements PyQt5 and sip are available from Riverbank Computing Limited at:
if on Windows just download the installer for your python version
if on Linux or Mac follow this path:
you can run the included pyqt5_check.py which will grab, build and install
Qt5, sip and PyQt5 in your python environment. It is cleanest using
virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper creating a virtualenv with:
mkvirtualenv -p /path/to/python/of/choice/bin/python myvenv
python pyqt5_check.py
and then running the script, but you can definitely install in your system python if you run:
sudo python pyqt5_check.py
or you can manually:
- Install Qt5. download the online installer
- Build sip and PyQt5 against this Qt5
Of course there are many ways to accomplish this feat, but needless to say
OS X and Linux installs of PyQt5 can be painful for some people.
The purpose of this is for 3D printing cadnano designs