PYTHON AND QT NOTES FOR QGIS PLUGIN DEVELOPMENT

My notes for Mac OS Qt and QGIS python plugin development tools on VSCode

Qt DEVELOPMENT VIRTUAL ENV:

NEW

python3 -m venv [my_directory]

ACTIVATE

 source my_venv/bin/activate

*PyQt framework

pip install PyQt5

For packaging QGIS plugins

pip install pb_tool

maybe this one

pip install PyQtWebEngine

Need to add the path to the plugin folder to pb_tool.cfg

plugin_path: /Users/nick/Library/Application Support/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/test/python/plugins

Launch from the terminal FOR LTR

/Applications/QGIS-LTR.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/designer

FOR NEWEST RELEASE

/Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/designer

these should be in the .vscode directory, in settings.json { // FROM: https://gist.github.com/NicolaiMogensen/acfd8723720c4761aefef3cdfc2aa55a // I like changing colors for my projects. QGIS projects are usually green. "workbench.colorCustomizations": { "titleBar.activeForeground": "#000000", "titleBar.activeBackground": "#0ff381", }, "terminal.integrated.env.osx": { "PYTHONPATH": "${env:QGIS_PATH}/Contents/Resources/python:${env:QGIS_PATH}/Contents/Resources/python/site-packages:${env:QGIS_PATH}/Contents/Resources/python/site-packages/PyQt5", "PATH": "${env:PATH}:${env:QGIS_PATH}/Contents/MacOS/bin" }, "python.pythonPath": "${env:QGIS_PATH}/Contents/MacOS/bin/python3.8" }

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