Pyqt Designer Signals And Slots
- @Praanesh This has been asked before. There is no such as 'a hexadecimal value', as a type, not in C and not in Python. Either you have a number (integer) or perhaps you have a string which is a representation in hex of a number.
- Okay Signal/Slots IMO should only be used with Threads as they are about 10x slower than a direct call as well as adding in a level of complexity that is completely unnecessary especially when - Every Parent has direct access to all its Children within the same thread AND passing a parent-handle to a Child is extremely simple and works even if you modularize your code.
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- But none of the other frameworks I tried had the signal/slot (callbacks if you like) that Qt provided. #Getting going in PyQt. The most difficult issue is to try and get Qt compiled and installed - I did this initially on a Mac (using PyVenv) and it was very painless - the general steps are as follows. Virtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python3.4 pyqt.
Graphical applications (GUI) are event-driven, unlike console or terminal applications. A users action like clicks a button or selecting an item in a list is called an event.
If an event takes place, each PyQt5 widget can emit a signal. A signal does not execute any action, that is done by a slot.
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Signals and slot introduction
Consider this example:
The button click (signal) is connected to the action (slot). In this example, the method slot_method will be called if the signal emits.
This principle of connecting slots methods or function to a widget, applies to all widgets,
or we can explicitly define the signal:
PyQt supports many type of signals, not just clicks.
Example
We can create a method (slot) that is connected to a widget. A slot is any callable function or method.
On running the application, we can click the button to execute the action (slot).
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Unlike a console mode application, which is executed in a sequential manner, a GUI based application is event driven. Functions or methods are executed in response to user’s actions like clicking on a button, selecting an item from a collection or a mouse click etc., called events.
Widgets used to build the GUI interface act as the source of such events. Each PyQt widget, which is derived from QObject class, is designed to emit ‘signal’ in response to one or more events. The signal on its own does not perform any action. Instead, it is ‘connected’ to a ‘slot’. The slot can be any callable Python function.
Using Qt Designer's Signal/Slot Editor
First design a simple form with a LineEdit control and a PushButton.
It is desired that if button is pressed, contents of text box should be erased. The QLineEdit widget has a clear() method for this purpose. Hence, the button’s clicked signal is to be connected to clear() method of the text box.
To start with, choose Edit signals/slots from Edit menu (or press F4). Then highlight the button with mouse and drag the cursor towards the textbox
As the mouse is released, a dialog showing signals of button and methods of slot will be displayed. Select clicked signal and clear() method
The Signal/Slot Editor window at bottom right will show the result −
Save ui and Build and Python code from ui file as shown in the below code −
Generated Python code will have the connection between signal and slot by the following statement −
Run signalslot.py and enter some text in the LineEdit. The text will be cleared if the button is pressed.
Building Signal-slot Connection
Instead of using Designer, you can directly establish signal-slot connection by following syntax −
Suppose if a function is to be called when a button is clicked. Here, the clicked signal is to be connected to a callable function. It can be achieved in any of the following technique −
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Example
In the following example, two QPushButton objects (b1 and b2) are added in QDialog window. We want to call functions b1_clicked() and b2_clicked() on clicking b1 and b2 respectively.
When b1 is clicked, the clicked() signal is connected to b1_clicked() function −
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When b2 is clicked, the clicked() signal is connected to b2_clicked() function.
The above code produces the following output −