[PyQt] X Windows Screen goes Blank when new Window opens

2008-02-20 Thread Kevin Foss
Hi, Can any one explain in X Windows why the screen goes blank whenever a new window is opened? It becomes annoying when I open a new application screen and everything disappears for a second. Is it possible to avoid this? Kevin ___ PyQt maili

Re: [PyQt] setText from threading

2008-02-20 Thread Richard A. Johnson
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Algis Kabaila wrote: [...] | In quietly reading the mail on this list, I have seen repeated references | that "PyQt comes with examples" -- where exactly are those examples? It | seems that "everybody knows", except me... python-qt4-docs I believe is the package yo

Re: [PyQt] setText from threading

2008-02-20 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 21.02.08 09:23:55, Algis Kabaila wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:32:47 Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > On 20.02.08 15:59:31, Reinaldo de Carvalho wrote: > [..] > > No, but PyQt comes with examples and that includes examples which use > > threads and events I think. > [..] > > Andreas > > In quietly

Re: [PyQt] setText from threading

2008-02-20 Thread Algis Kabaila
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:32:47 Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 20.02.08 15:59:31, Reinaldo de Carvalho wrote: [..] > No, but PyQt comes with examples and that includes examples which use > threads and events I think. [..] > Andreas In quietly reading the mail on this list, I have seen repeated reference

Re: [PyQt] Transparent Buttons & Widgets

2008-02-20 Thread fossks
Gustavo, Thanks for your advice. You'll be proud to know that I am currently using your application as the base for mine, that is the whole stylesheet structure. It works great and I've learned a lot from your work. However, my issue is more that I am not much of a graphics artist and

Re: [PyQt] setText from threading

2008-02-20 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 20.02.08 15:59:31, Reinaldo de Carvalho wrote: Sending to the list again. > You have a sample code? No, but PyQt comes with examples and that includes examples which use threads and events I think. Those are probably using QThread instead of python threads, so things might work a bit differen

Re: [PyQt] setText from threading

2008-02-20 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 20.02.08 14:26:37, Reinaldo de Carvalho wrote: > PyQt3 3.16 (Debian etch), my program use Qt3, i cant update to PyQt4 now. You can't change Qt gui components from a thread other than the gui thread. You have to implement some notification mechanism between your thread and gui components. A comm

[PyQt] Transparent Buttons & Widgets

2008-02-20 Thread fossks
Hi, I'm new to this list but I've been using PyQt 4.1 for the past year or so. My personal project is to make a frontend to MPlayer for my touchscreen PC in my car. I've created a basic version using common widgets and toolbars, but this is not really touchscreen friendly. Now I've found

[PyQt] setText from threading

2008-02-20 Thread Reinaldo de Carvalho
PyQt3 3.16 (Debian etch), my program use Qt3, i cant update to PyQt4 now. [...] def thread_start( self ): self.gbox.setEnabled(False) self.thread1 = threading.Thread(target=self.simulate) self.thread1.setDaemon(1) self.thread1.start() def simulate( self ): i = 0 while i < 10:

Re: [PyQt] PyQt4 with cx_Freeze

2008-02-20 Thread V. Armando Sole
Hi Darryl, At 09:25 20/02/2008 -0500, Darryl Wallace wrote: Armando, I did a gdb on my executable and it appears as though the PyQt4.QtCore.so file is causing the problem. I am wondering if it is due to the fact that I am running this on an AMD64 bit machine. Just curious to see if my direct

Re: [PyQt] version compatibility

2008-02-20 Thread Phil Thompson
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, David Reiser wrote: > Should I be able to get pyqt 3.15 to work with sip 4.7.4? No. > I have pyqt4 4.3.3 working with sip 4.7.4 and Qt 4.3.3, but I'm trying > to maintain legacy compatibility for pyqt 3.15 (originally built with > sip 4.3.1)with qt 3.3.8 while I do

[PyQt] version compatibility

2008-02-20 Thread David Reiser
Should I be able to get pyqt 3.15 to work with sip 4.7.4? I have pyqt4 4.3.3 working with sip 4.7.4 and Qt 4.3.3, but I'm trying to maintain legacy compatibility for pyqt 3.15 (originally built with sip 4.3.1)with qt 3.3.8 while I do some testing of other things that use the older pyqt. I t

Re: [PyQt] PyQt4 with cx_Freeze

2008-02-20 Thread Darryl Wallace
Armando, I did a gdb on my executable and it appears as though the PyQt4.QtCore.so file is causing the problem. I am wondering if it is due to the fact that I am running this on an AMD64 bit machine. Just curious to see if my directory contents match yours, here is a list of files in my 'di

Re: [PyQt] PyQt4 with cx_Freeze

2008-02-20 Thread V. Armando Sole
Hello, At 08:34 20/02/2008 -0500, you wrote: Armando, I had built the FreezePython as you say file and running it gives me the same result. ? I'm not sure what else I might need to include. Strange. Sorry but I cannot reproduce your error. All I can tell is that I have everything (Python,

Re: [PyQt] PyQt4 with cx_Freeze

2008-02-20 Thread Darryl Wallace
Armando, I had built the FreezePython as you say file and running it gives me the same result. ? I'm not sure what else I might need to include. darryl V. Armando Sole wrote: Hello At 16:04 19/02/2008 -0500, Darryl Wallace wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use cx_Freeze (my latest try has bee

Re: [PyQt] PyQt4 with cx_Freeze

2008-02-20 Thread V. Armando Sole
At 22:19 19/02/2008 +0100, Giovanni Bajo wrote: cx_Freeze is unmaintained, AFAIK. Try with PyInstaller SVN trunk (or branch /dl which will be merged in the next few days). I will not enter into discussions about what to use or not but, just for information, cx_freeze is maintained (at least it

Re: [PyQt] PyQt4 with cx_Freeze

2008-02-20 Thread V. Armando Sole
Hello At 16:04 19/02/2008 -0500, Darryl Wallace wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use cx_Freeze (my latest try has been with version 3) to try to freeze a PyQt program into a binary for distribution. I tried just compiling the Multiple Document Interface (mdi.py) example that comes with PyQt4 as