I've just started to work with python, so I run into problem. I've searched everywhere, but I couldn't find similar example.
So, the problem is following: I made a simple GUI using QT-Designer. QTableWidget is being filled out by clicking on button Analyse. (as you can see on the picture)
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When I select one checkBox the rest of them are being selected randomly, and I don't know why.
As I said, I'm new at Python, so the good explanation would mean a lot to me. Here is the source code:
import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui,QtCore
from IDCS import *
class MyForm(QtGui.QMainWindow):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
self.ui = Ui_MainWindow()
self.ui.setupUi(self)
self.connect(self.ui.analyseButton, QtCore.SIGNAL('clicked()'), self.doAnalyse)
self.connect(self.ui.quitButton, QtCore.SIGNAL('clicked()'), QtGui.qApp, QtCore.SLOT('quit()'))
def doAnalyse(self):
self.ui.tableWidget.setRowCount(10)
chkBoxItem = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem()
chkBoxItem.setFlags(QtCore.Qt.ItemIsUserCheckable | QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEnabled)
chkBoxItem.setCheckState(QtCore.Qt.Unchecked)
for i in range(10):
self.ui.tableWidget.setItem(i, 0, chkBoxItem)
self.ui.tableWidget.setItem(i, 1, QtGui.QTableWidgetItem("description %s" % (i+1)))
self.ui.tableWidget.setItem(i, 2, QtGui.QTableWidgetItem("name %s" % (i+1)))
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
myapp = MyForm()
myapp.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())e
You are making only one instance of the CheckBox and putting it in 10 different places and that is wrong. You have to make 10 instances of CheckBox, and you will do that by moving those 3 lines of code, in which you are creating instance of CheckBox, under the for loop below.
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I am creating a basic GUI with multiple, but similar, label structures. However, when I created a class to help minimize the text, and placed it within a label frame, the label frame does not appear. This only happens when I use the class within a class, and if I use the regular label and label frame classes everything works out well. I'm trying to figure out as to why this is the case.
My code:
main.py
from tkinter import *
def main():
main_window = Tk()
app = First(main_window)
main_window.mainloop()
class GPULabel(Label):
def __init__(self, master, varText):
varText = varText
super().__init__()
self["text"] = varText
self["anchor"] = "w"
self["width"] = 25
class First:
def __init__(self, root):
self.root = root
self.root.title('First Window')
self.myFrame = LabelFrame(self.root, text="frame")
self.myFrame.pack()
label1 = GPULabel(self.myFrame, "label")
lable1.pack()
if __name__ == '__main__'
main()
This opens a window but it is completely empty. However, if I swap to a regular Label(self.myFrame...) then the window pops up correctly. Why is that? And is there a way to make my original method work?
I am making a GUI that had the Welcome page and the main page. The purpose is to let user agree on the welcome page, the welcome page is dismissed and the main page will show up for further step. However, the icon in the taskbar only shows up in the welcome page, when we click into the main window the icon is disappeared and the app appeared to be a minimized window on the bottom left corner in the screen.
The starting page and main window layout is appear like this.
class welcome_window(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
def __init__(self,parent = None):
super(welcome_window, self).__init__(parent)
self.confirm_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton('Yes')
self.confirm_button.clicked.connect(self.startup)
Main_layout = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout()
Main_layout.addWidget(self.confirm_button)
self.main.setLayout(Main_layout)
def startup(self):
self.close()
dialog = Main_window(self)
self.dialogs.append(dialog)
dialog.show()
class Main_window(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
def __init__(self,parent = None):
super(Main_window, self).__init__(parent)
self.setGeometry(50, 50, 1500, 850)
# here is all the step for later operation
def main():
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
main = welcome_window()
main.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
I expected that if the icon located in the taskbar could always stay on, it would be great for my GUI. Thank you all.
First of all, the MRE you gave is not reproducible. When I tried to run it it just didn't work. In this case you had a simple issue so I could just guess what was intended, but when you get more complicated problems people might not be able to help you. So in the future please make sure that we can just copy-paste-execute your code.
The reason that the main window disappears is that it's a member of the Welcome window. When you close the Welcome window, the corresponding python object will deleted and therefore Python will no longer have a reference to the main window. The main window object will be garbage-collected and all kinds of strange things might happen (I would expect it to just disappear).
The solution is to have a reference to the main window that stays valid until the program closes. This can be done by defining it in the main function (and then giving it as a parameter to the Welcome window). Like this...
import sys
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
# Use a QWidget if you don't need toolbars.
class welcome_window(QtWidgets.QWidget):
def __init__(self, main_window=None, parent = None):
super(welcome_window, self).__init__(parent)
self.main_window = main_window
self.confirm_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton('Yes')
self.confirm_button.clicked.connect(self.startup)
main_layout = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout() # use lower case for variable names
main_layout.addWidget(self.confirm_button)
self.setLayout(main_layout)
def startup(self):
self.main_window.show()
self.close()
class Main_window(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
def __init__(self,parent = None):
super(Main_window, self).__init__(parent)
self.setGeometry(50, 50, 1500, 850)
# here is all the step for later operation
# Don't use self.setLayout on a QMainWindow,
# use a central widget and set a layout on that.
self.main_widget = QtWidgets.QWidget()
self.setCentralWidget(self.main_widget)
main_layout = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout()
self.main_widget.setLayout(main_layout)
main_layout.addWidget(QtWidgets.QLabel("Hello"))
def main():
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
main = Main_window()
welcome = welcome_window(main_window=main)
welcome.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Some more tips. Don't use setLayout on a QMainWindow. Use a central widget and add your widgets to the layout of the central widget. The layout of the main window is for toolbars and such. See: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmainwindow.html#qt-main-window-framework
Just use a QWidget if you want a simple window without toolbars (like your welcome window),
Best to use lower case for variable names and upper case for class names. E.g. I renamed Main_layout to main_layout. Look at the difference in syntax highlighting by Stack Overflow above.
I want to create a PyQt combobox with a fixed title. More specific this means that I want to have a dropdown menu from which the user can select but the dropdown button is always labeled the same. So for example I want to create an option for the user to specify where the legend of a plot is drawn. The button for this should always be labled "Legend" but when you click on it, it opens a dropdown menu with the placing options such as "upper right", "upper left", "top", etc. Once the user selected an option the legend is updated but the button still sais "Legend".
I have this so far:
self.fnLegendButton = QtGui.QComboBox()
self.fnLegendButton.addItems('Upper right,Lower right,Upper left,Lower left,Top,Disable'.split(','))
self.fnLegendButton.setCurrentIndex(0)
self.fnLegendButton.setToolTip('Select the legend position.')
self.fnLegendButton.currentIndexChanged.connect( <positioning function> )
self.fnLegendButton.setMaximumWidth(60)
Here's a working example:
import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
class Example(QtGui.QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super(Example, self).__init__()
self.initUI()
def initUI(self):
self.fnLegendButton = QtGui.QComboBox(self)
self.fnLegendButton.addItems(
'Legend,Upper right,Lower right,Upper left,Lower left,Top,Disable'.split(','))
self.fnLegendButton.setCurrentIndex(0)
self.fnLegendButton.setToolTip('Select the legend position.')
self.fnLegendButton.currentIndexChanged[
str].connect(self.avoid_db_change)
self.fnLegendButton.setMaximumWidth(100)
self.fnLegendButton.move(50, 50)
self.setGeometry(300, 300, 250, 150)
self.setWindowTitle('QtGui.QCheckBox')
self.show()
def avoid_db_change(self, text):
print("Processing {0} item".format(text))
self.fnLegendButton.blockSignals(True)
self.fnLegendButton.setCurrentIndex(0)
self.fnLegendButton.blockSignals(False)
def main():
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
ex = Example()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
The important bits of this code are inside the avoid_db_change, that function is the one used to keep the "Legend" text no matter which item you've pressed. Now, you don't want to fire that function again when self.fnLegendButton.setCurrentIndex(0) is executed, so to avoid that, you surround it by a couple of blockSignals methods. Just try to comment the blockSignals methods and you'll understand what this means.
EDIT : I've come up with a solution, and it's much more straightforward than I thought. Original code and question at the top. My solution after "The Question" below..
The Example
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
from example_Ui import Ui_MainWindow
from filler_Ui import Form
class TabFiller(Form):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
Form.__init__(self, parent)
def TabButtonClicked(self):
print("Tab button pressed.")
def LineEditChanged(self):
print("LineEdit contents edited in tab page!")
class MainWindow(QtGui.QMainWindow, Ui_MainWindow):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(MainWindow, self).__init__(parent)
self.setupUi(self)
tab_filler = [] # create empty list for tab contents
tab_page = [] # create empty list for tab page
tab_count = 0
def CreateNewTab(self):
tab_title = "New Tab : " + str(self.tab_count)
self.tab_filler.append(TabFiller())
self.tab_filler[self.tab_count].label.setText(tab_title)
self.tab_page.append(self.tab_filler[self.tab_count])
self.tabWidget.addTab(self.tab_page[self.tab_count], tab_title)
self.tab_count += 1
def MainButtonPressed(self):
self.CreateNewTab()
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
window = MainWindow()
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
MainWindow contains a QTabWidget, which is a Button. clicked() signal has been defined in QtDesigner to be sent to the MainButtonPressed() function inside the MainWindow class.
Form widget also created in QTdesigner. Used to fill additional Tab Pages.
This contains a Button widget, and a LineEdit Widget.
The Question
I can't get my head around how I can tell which widget has been clicked or edited in each tab.
I know that each Tab Page is stored in the list called tab_page.
Within the MainWindow class, how would I receive a clicked() or finishedEditing() signal for a given widget in a currently active tab?
A Solution
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4 import QtGui
from example_Ui import Ui_MainWindow
from filler_Ui import Form
class MainWindow(QtGui.QMainWindow, Ui_MainWindow):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(MainWindow, self).__init__(parent)
self.setupUi(self)
tab_index = 1 # 1 because we already made a default tab in QtDesigner
def LineEditChanged(self):
findWidget = self.tabWidget.widget(self.tabWidget.currentIndex()).findChildren(QtGui.QLineEdit, "lineEdit")
if findWidget[0].isModified() == True:
print("LineEdit contents edited in tab page!")
print("Name of page edited :", "'", self.tabWidget.tabText(self.tabWidget.currentIndex()),"'")
def TabButtonPressed(self):
print("YOU DID IT!")
print("Current Tab Index = ", self.tabWidget.currentIndex())
def CreateNewTab(self, tabNum):
tab_title = "New Tab : " + str(self.tab_index)
self.tabWidget.addTab(Form(), tab_title)
def MainButtonPressed(self):
self.CreateNewTab(self.tab_index)
findWidget = self.tabWidget.widget(self.tab_index).findChildren(QtGui.QPushButton, "tabButton")
findWidget[0].clicked.connect(self.TabButtonPressed)
findWidget = self.tabWidget.widget(self.tab_index).findChildren(QtGui.QLineEdit, "lineEdit")
findWidget[0].editingFinished.connect(self.LineEditChanged)
self.tab_index += 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
window = MainWindow()
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
Using this there's no need for storing each tab page object in a list. You basically use the QTabWidget to index your pages, and off you go.
If anyone has a more elegant way than this, please inform ;)
As outlined in my edited question, I did find the solution to this, which is to use the QTabWidget to "index" each dynamically created tab page.
In QtDesigner I created a main window with one QTabWidget and one button thusly;
Here's the object tree for that;
NOTE: I added a signal/slot for the "Click Me!" button in QtDesigner, so that when that button is clicked, the MainButtonPressed function is called.
To fill the tab pages, I also created a Form in QtDesigner, with a button and a QLineEdit widget;
And the object tree for that;
I'll reproduce the code here. NOTE: I've now updated this answer to use findChild rather than findChildren above:
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4 import QtGui
from example_Ui import Ui_MainWindow
from filler_Ui import Form
class MainWindow(QtGui.QMainWindow, Ui_MainWindow):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(MainWindow, self).__init__(parent)
self.setupUi(self)
tab_index = 1 # 1 because we already made a default tab in QtDesigner
def LineEditChanged(self):
findWidget = self.tabWidget.widget(self.tabWidget.currentIndex()).findChild(QtGui.QLineEdit, "lineEdit")
if findWidget.isModified() == True:
print("LineEdit contents edited in tab page!")
print("Name of page edited :", "'", self.tabWidget.tabText(self.tabWidget.currentIndex()),"'")
def TabButtonPressed(self):
print("YOU DID IT!")
print("Current Tab Index = ", self.tabWidget.currentIndex())
def CreateNewTab(self, tabNum):
tab_title = "New Tab : " + str(self.tab_index)
self.tabWidget.addTab(Form(), tab_title)
def MainButtonPressed(self):
self.CreateNewTab(self.tab_index)
findWidget = self.tabWidget.widget(self.tab_index).findChild(QtGui.QPushButton, "tabButton")
findWidget.clicked.connect(self.TabButtonPressed)
findWidget = self.tabWidget.widget(self.tab_index).findChild(QtGui.QLineEdit, "lineEdit")
findWidget.editingFinished.connect(self.LineEditChanged)
self.tab_index += 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
window = MainWindow()
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
When run, pressing the "Click Me!" button on the main tab page creates a new tab, and adds the contents of the "filler" page to it.
The variable tab_index keeps track of how many tabs there are and allows you to reference the contents of each tab.
To find a widget in a tab, you use the findChild function of Qt;
findWidget = self.tabWidget.widget(self.tab_index).findChild(QtGui.QPushButton, "tabButton")
Finding a specific widget is straightforward. You specify the type of widget you're looking for (QtGui.QPushButton) , and the name you assigned it in QtDesigner (tabButton)
In this case the found widget can be referenced by the variable findWidget.
You can then connect signals to function slots as usual;
findWidget.clicked.connect(self.TabButtonPressed)
In this case I used the new-style signal connection method to connect the clicked() signal to a function named TabButtonPressed in my program.
Rinse and repeat for each widget on the Tab Page you wish to do something with.
After that, it really is plain sailing ;)
I hope this information helps others in their GUI endeavours. You can probably use the same technique with the QToolBox widget.
This fairly minimal code creates a systray item with three right click options. One is an instance of QDialog, another QMainWindow, and also Quit. It's for a systray-driven app that will have some qdialogs and also a qmainwindow containing a table widget (or, is it possible to create a table into a qdialog?). I've been stuck on this for a week or so, read a lot of related materials and do not understand how to resolve it.
From the systray icon menu, clicking on QDialog, the dialog opens, waits for user action, and clicking the Ok or Cancel buttons will print which one was clicked. It would seem this works because QDialog has its own exec_(). Great so far.
However, clicking on the QMainWindow menu option, the main window dialog appears briefly and disappears with no chance for user input, of course. Maybe instead, the qmainwindow dialog would need to rely on the QApplication's exec_() where the object would instead be initialized just before app.exec_() perhaps? If that would work, I'm not clear on how def qmainwindow() would retrieve the information back from the user.
Hopefully a simple matter for someone who knows, a few changes, bingo.
Current environment: Windows 7 or XP, Python 2.7, Pyside
If you run this, there will be a blank place-holder in the systray that is clickable (right click), or you can also give it an actual image in place of 'sample.png'.
#!python
from PySide import QtGui, QtCore
from PySide.QtGui import QApplication, QDialog, QMainWindow
def qdialog():
qdialog_class_obj = TestClassQDialog()
qdialog_class_obj.show()
qdialog_class_obj.exec_() # wait for user
print "qdialog_user_action: ", qdialog_class_obj.qdialog_user_action
def qmainwindow():
qmainwindow_class_obj = TestClassQMainWindow()
qmainwindow_class_obj.show()
#qmainwindow_class_obj.exec_() # 'TestClassQMainWindow' object has no attribute 'exec_'
class TestClassQDialog(QDialog):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(TestClassQDialog, self).__init__(parent)
self.ok_cancel = QtGui.QDialogButtonBox(self)
self.ok_cancel.setStandardButtons(QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Ok|QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Cancel)
QtCore.QObject.connect(self.ok_cancel, QtCore.SIGNAL("accepted()"), self.button_ok)
QtCore.QObject.connect(self.ok_cancel, QtCore.SIGNAL("rejected()"), self.button_cancel)
def button_ok(self):
self.qdialog_user_action = 'ok'
self.hide()
def button_cancel(self):
self.qdialog_user_action = 'cancel'
self.hide()
class TestClassQMainWindow(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(TestClassQMainWindow, self).__init__(parent)
self.ok_cancel = QtGui.QDialogButtonBox(self)
self.ok_cancel.setStandardButtons(QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Cancel|QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Ok)
QtCore.QObject.connect(self.ok_cancel, QtCore.SIGNAL("accepted()"), self.button_ok)
QtCore.QObject.connect(self.ok_cancel, QtCore.SIGNAL("rejected()"), self.button_cancel)
def button_ok(self):
self.hide()
def button_cancel(self):
self.hide()
class SysTrayIcon(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(SysTrayIcon, self).__init__(parent)
self.qdialog_action = QtGui.QAction("QDialog", self, triggered=qdialog)
self.qmainwindow_action = QtGui.QAction("QMainWindow", self, triggered=qmainwindow)
self.quit_action = QtGui.QAction("Quit", self, triggered=QtGui.qApp.quit)
self.createSystrayIcon()
self.systrayIcon.show()
def createSystrayIcon(self):
self.systrayIconMenu = QtGui.QMenu(self)
self.systrayIconMenu.addAction(self.qdialog_action)
self.systrayIconMenu.addAction(self.qmainwindow_action)
self.systrayIconMenu.addSeparator()
self.systrayIconMenu.addAction(self.quit_action)
self.systrayIcon = QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon(self)
self.systrayIcon.setContextMenu(self.systrayIconMenu)
self.systrayIcon.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon('sample.png')) # point to a valid image if you want.
self.systrayIcon.setVisible(True)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QtGui.QApplication([])
systrayicon = SysTrayIcon()
app.exec_()
I've got it working. What I did was move your external method qmainwindow inside of your
SysTrayIcon and created the class parameter self.qmainwindow_class_obj = TestClassQMainWindow(). I've attached the working code below. Also, you're using the old style signal slot method, I take it you're coming from old school PyQt. The new method if very nice, clean and pythonic. I've also put the new style methods in the below code. Another thing I would do is move your qdialog method inside the SysTrayIcon class. I don't really understand why you have it outside the class but maybe I'm missing something. Hope this helps.
#!python
from PySide import QtGui, QtCore
from PySide.QtGui import QApplication, QDialog, QMainWindow
def qdialog():
qdialog_class_obj = TestClassQDialog()
qdialog_class_obj.show()
qdialog_class_obj.exec_() # wait for user
print "qdialog_user_action: ", qdialog_class_obj.qdialog_user_action
class TestClassQDialog(QDialog):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(TestClassQDialog, self).__init__(parent)
self.ok_cancel = QtGui.QDialogButtonBox(self)
self.ok_cancel.setStandardButtons(QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Ok|QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Cancel)
self.ok_cancel.accepted.connect(self.button_ok)
self.ok_cancel.rejected.connect(self.button_cancel)
def button_ok(self):
self.qdialog_user_action = 'ok'
self.hide()
def button_cancel(self):
self.qdialog_user_action = 'cancel'
self.hide()
class TestClassQMainWindow(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(TestClassQMainWindow, self).__init__(parent)
self.ok_cancel = QtGui.QDialogButtonBox(self)
self.ok_cancel.setStandardButtons(QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Cancel|QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Ok)
self.ok_cancel.accepted.connect(self.button_ok)
self.ok_cancel.rejected.connect(self.button_cancel)
def button_ok(self):
self.hide()
def button_cancel(self):
self.hide()
class SysTrayIcon(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(SysTrayIcon, self).__init__(parent)
self.qmainwindow_class_obj = TestClassQMainWindow()
self.qdialog_action = QtGui.QAction("QDialog", self, triggered=qdialog)
self.qmainwindow_action = QtGui.QAction("QMainWindow", self, triggered=self.qmainwindow)
self.quit_action = QtGui.QAction("Quit", self, triggered=QtGui.qApp.quit)
self.createSystrayIcon()
self.systrayIcon.show()
def createSystrayIcon(self):
self.systrayIconMenu = QtGui.QMenu(self)
self.systrayIconMenu.addAction(self.qdialog_action)
self.systrayIconMenu.addAction(self.qmainwindow_action)
self.systrayIconMenu.addSeparator()
self.systrayIconMenu.addAction(self.quit_action)
self.systrayIcon = QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon(self)
self.systrayIcon.setContextMenu(self.systrayIconMenu)
self.systrayIcon.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon('linux.jpeg')) # point to a valid image if you want.
self.systrayIcon.setVisible(True)
def qmainwindow(self):
self.qmainwindow_class_obj.show()
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QtGui.QApplication([])
systrayicon = SysTrayIcon()
app.exec_()