[chirp_devel] Comments on a UI rewrite

[Jim Unroe]

>
> > I downloaded the Linux build. I had to install the python-future
> > package to run it. When it comes up it doesn't look like the linux
> > example. In Windows there only 2 options on the menu bar: File, Radio
> > and Help. In the example the same menu bar options are show. On my
> > linux computer the menu options are the same as a normal CHIRP build:
> > File, Edit, View, Radio and Help (example attached). The Loc numbers
> > aren't centered in the column or bold. There are also not grid lines.
> > It is almost like some kind of hybrid has been loaded.
>
> I imagine you ran "chirpw" like normal, which will boot the old interface. Look for chirpwx.py right next to it and it should load it up. You will need to "python3 -mpip install wxPython" first, at least. Sorry I didn't mention that. But, now you see that the two UIs can co-exist for the time being at least.

I had to install pip3 first...

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Then when I attempted to install wxPython I got a
"ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'" error.

jim at jim-desktop:/media/jim/e86c7433-1ab9-44d7-a2f8-76ea78f5f498/Radio_Stuff/chirp_wx/chirp-20191206-wx$
python3 -mpip install wxPython
Collecting wxPython
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b9/8b/31267dd6d026a082faed35ec8d97522c0236f2e083bf15aff64d982215e1/wxPython-4.0.7.post2.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
/tmp/pip-build-3pev7nrm/wxPython/
jim at jim-desktop:/media/jim/e86c7433-1ab9-44d7-a2f8-76ea78f5f498/Radio_Stuff/chirp_wx/chirp-20191206-wx$

Any ideas?

Jim