Camelot is a Python GUI framework for building desktop applications very quickly, simply by adding some additional information to your model definition. Camelot is built on top of Sqlalchemy and PyQt, and is inspired by the Django admin interface. The framework includes custom field types and editors for images, email addresses, rich text, and more.
| Tags | application framework |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv2 |
| Operating Systems | Linux Unix Windows Mac OS X |
| Implementation | Python Qt4 SQLAlchemy PyQt Qt Elixir Matplotlib |
Recent releases


Release Notes: The focus of this release was moving to SQLAlchemy 7.x and making the GUI more customizable. It is now straightforward to change the menu and the toolbar. New features include support for importing Excel files from the file wizard, configurable toolbars in the one-to-many and many-to-many editor, Spanish translations, the ability to add a close button to a form and to customize the form close action, default values for filters, a configurable main menu and toolbars in the ApplicationAdmin, and rewritten Camelot functions behind toolbars and menus to actions.


Release Notes: This release mainly brings the implementation of the new style actions, using iterators to communicate between the model and the GUI. Other changes are the delayed creation of widgets on tabs to improve performance for screens with many fields, the move to migrate 7.1., a new splash screen, Italian translations, and PySide compatibility.


Release Notes: Refresh now re-executes queries in the table view. Deleted entities are grayed out in the GUI if they are deleted when visible. The settings mechanism is now pluggable. Print preview now exports as PDF when no printer is available. A wizard for creating a new project was added. API documentation was integrated with Sphinx. A UserException class was added. It is a subclass of Exception that can be used to inform the user in a gentle way that they should behave differently. Memory usage was reduced. Experimental PySide support was added. German, French, and Dutch translations were added. Generation of .po files was integrated with setuptools.


Release Notes: The navigation pane is more intuitive. Application actions show up in the home screen. The workspace maximizes when double clicking on the tab bar. Postgres is supported for backing up and restoring. DocxApplicationAction and PixmapFormAction were added. EntityAdmin supports objects mapped with plain SQLAlchemy. Tab behavior of some editors was fixed. Support was added for editing columns in the frozen part of a table view. FileEditor supports removing files after copying them. A progress dialog is shown when records are deleted. A DateTime Editor was added. Most editors now support background_color, editable, and tooltip as dynamic attributes.


Release Notes: The interface is now based on tabs instead of MDI. Table view was made faster. Search queries were improved. More dynamic field attributes were added, such as tooltip, background_color, editable, choices, prefix, suffix, and arrow. SQLAlchemy 0.6.x support was added. Matplotlib integration was added. The new style of signal/slot connections is now used. Columns in a table view were frozen.
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