Re: [PyQt] need help with sizing QStackedWidgets

2013-08-26 Thread Eric Frederich
ayout and call addStretch. On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Eric Frederich wrote: > Would appreciate some help here. > I don't like how these stacked widgets take up all of this vertical space > when the window is resized. > I have tried setting a size policy to minimum on the st

Re: [PyQt] need help with sizing QStackedWidgets

2013-08-26 Thread Eric Frederich
Would appreciate some help here. I don't like how these stacked widgets take up all of this vertical space when the window is resized. I have tried setting a size policy to minimum on the stacked widgets but no luck. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Eric Frederich wrote: > Here is

[PyQt] need help with sizing QStackedWidgets

2013-08-23 Thread Eric Frederich
Here is a small example. I tried putting a vertical spacer on the bottom yet these stacked widgets want to take up space when resized. #!/usr/bin/env python from PyQt4.QtCore import * from PyQt4.QtGui import * class TestWidget(QWidget): def __init__(self, labels, parent=None): super(

Re: [PyQt] Absolute paths in qrc file.

2013-06-28 Thread Eric Frederich
: > On 28/06/13 15:45, Eric Frederich wrote: >> >> I'm having trouble working with absolute file paths in my qrc resource >> file with PyQt. >> Am I doing something wrong or is it just something that rcc happens to >> support but not pyrcc4? >>

[PyQt] Absolute paths in qrc file.

2013-06-28 Thread Eric Frederich
I'm having trouble working with absolute file paths in my qrc resource file with PyQt. Am I doing something wrong or is it just something that rcc happens to support but not pyrcc4? Here is my resource file $ cat resources.qrc /usr/share/icons/oxygen/32x32/actions/document-save-

Re: [PyQt] graphical file tail

2013-06-25 Thread Eric Frederich
post a "do it for me" email so I provided the implementation that I tried ;-) Thanks, ~Eric On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:22 AM, David Boddie wrote: > On Mon Jun 24 20:24:25 BST 2013, Eric Frederich wrote: > >> I'm trying to tail several files graphically. >> I have bee

Re: [PyQt] graphical file tail

2013-06-25 Thread Eric Frederich
ll is there anything else wrong with my code that I should know about? Thanks for your help. On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:25 PM, John Lee wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Eric Frederich wrote: > >> I'm trying to tail several files graphically. >> I have been trying to find a way to

Re: [PyQt] graphical file tail

2013-06-24 Thread Eric Frederich
y are :-( Any Qt4 help would be appreciated. Am I cleaning up my tail processes correctly? Is it just the QThreads I'm screwing up? Are there other hidden dangers with my implementation? On Jun 24, 2013 7:25 PM, "John Lee" wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Eric Frederich wrote:

[PyQt] graphical file tail

2013-06-24 Thread Eric Frederich
I'm trying to tail several files graphically. I have been trying to find a way to tail several files in a GUI without much luck at all. I get errors from tail saying broken pipe. I get PyQt errors saying underlying C++ objects have been destroyed. I get other Qt errors saying that threads are still

[PyQt] Profiling with QThreads

2011-10-04 Thread Eric Frederich
Hello, I have a client application that does a long running data traversal making a lot of server calls. I put this operation in a QThread so that the GUI would stay responsive. I am now using a profiler on this application trying to see which calls to the server are taking most of the time. The p

Re: [PyQt] Help with unresponsive GUI

2011-08-30 Thread Eric Frederich
cfoo def bar(char* x): cdef int with nogil: cfoo.bar(x, &y) return y After doing this my GUI is more responsive than ever. This is my first gripe with the GIL and I have done used the multiprocessing module before with work queues. Weird. Thanks for the help. On Tue, Aug 30

[PyQt] Help with unresponsive GUI

2011-08-30 Thread Eric Frederich
Hello all, I am having problems with an unresponsive GUI. I have a GUI for a client in a client / server program. For long running operations, I implemented a QThread subclass and do everything in the run method. Still, I have an unresponsive GUI. If I replace all the the server calls with a time

Re: [PyQt] Help with Login Dialog / QThread issues

2011-08-08 Thread Eric Frederich
ug 6, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Baz Walter wrote: > On 05/08/11 17:46, Eric Frederich wrote: >> >> Any takers? >> >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Eric Frederich >>  wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am trying to create a login dialog for

Re: [PyQt] Help with Login Dialog / QThread issues

2011-08-05 Thread Eric Frederich
Any takers? On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Eric Frederich wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to create a login dialog for my application. > Logging in can take a couple of seconds so I wanted to show a progress > bar during the login process. > I think that for my QProgressBar

[PyQt] Help with Login Dialog / QThread issues

2011-07-07 Thread Eric Frederich
Hello, I am trying to create a login dialog for my application. Logging in can take a couple of seconds so I wanted to show a progress bar during the login process. I think that for my QProgressBar to animate during this time, I need to log in on a different thread. Is this true? So, below I hav

[PyQt] Model / View for some data

2011-07-05 Thread Eric Frederich
Hello, I have some data that I would like to be displayed somehow. I have a bunch of parent / child relationships. These relationships can form loops. Also, children can have multiple parents. Can this be put into a tree view? I have ran into problems trying to do this via AbstractItemModel becau

Re: [PyQt] QPainter::end: Painter ended with 2 saved states

2011-06-28 Thread Eric Frederich
nabled, True)) self.connect(b, SIGNAL('SLEPT'), self.sender().setText) b.start() def print_data(self, blah): print blah.data if __name__ == '__main__': import sys app = QApplication(sys.argv[1:]) md = MyDialog() md.show() sys.exit(

[PyQt] QPainter::end: Painter ended with 2 saved states

2011-06-28 Thread Eric Frederich
I was trying to get an example working with a QThread. I wound up creating one but after running it for a while and pressing buttons I got the error... QPainter::end: Painter ended with 2 saved states Am I doing something wrong? I wanted an example where a worker thread would query a database or s

Re: [PyQt] Kudos

2011-04-20 Thread Eric Frederich
Is there a PyQt installer built with Visual Studio? I am embedding a Python interpreter in a 3rd party application and creating bindings to that same 3rd party's libraries. Unless I am mistaken I am fairly sure that I need both Python and my bindings created using Visual Studio. I have tried to

[PyQt] Kudos

2011-04-19 Thread Eric Frederich
Hey Phil, I recently built some Python bindings (using Cython) for a 3rd party library that had to be built using Visual Studio 2005. Its great having these bindings and being able to use Python. Unfortunately, to install any other Python modules I have to build them myself as nobody offers versio

[PyQt] long running operations

2011-04-01 Thread Eric Frederich
I'd like to be able to do something in PyQt that I know how to do in Java / Swing and that is run certain processes off of the EDT (event dispatch thread). Normally, I lock down different parts of the gui before hand, and then re-enable them after the operation is done. This must be possible in P

Re: [PyQt] Translating from a function

2010-09-29 Thread Eric Frederich
ht context. Any help is appreciated. I do have it working now, but I don't like how long this is... QCoreApplication.translate("MyContext", "My String") Thanks, ~Eric On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Baz Walter wrote: > On 29/09/10 15:19, Eric Frederich wrote:

[PyQt] Translating from a function

2010-09-29 Thread Eric Frederich
I have a bunch of helper functions that raise exceptions and I'd like the messages in those exceptions to be translated. How should I get those strings translated? QObject.tr is not a static method, I can't just call it. I need a QObject don't I? What is the best practice here? Thanks, ~Eric

[PyQt] signal propagating

2010-09-28 Thread Eric Frederich
Hello, Here's a stripped down example of my problem. I have a group of widgets that I keep together with a class called MyWidgetGroup. It holds a line edit and a label which together have a meaning (getMeaning) but by themselves mean nothing. I need to make connections to a method so it'll get ca

[PyQt] synced line edits

2010-09-24 Thread Eric Frederich
I'm having some trouble trying to figure out how to get two line edits to constantly be in sync including cursor position. I'm sure its simple, or a matter of creating the right connections, but I can't seem to figure it out. I'm hooking two line edits textChagned signal up to the other's setText s

Re: [PyQt] Newbie QMainWindow tips

2010-09-16 Thread Eric Frederich
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:27 PM, fpp wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Eric Frederich > wrote: > > > > So if I connect the tab bar's currentChanged(int) signal to a dock > widget's > > method, where does the dock widget get the data from? > >

Re: [PyQt] Newbie QMainWindow tips

2010-09-16 Thread Eric Frederich
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:55 AM, fpp wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Eric Frederich > wrote: > > Trying to get my first PyQt MainWindow application going. > > Its going to be to edit multiple [we'll just call them] documents in > tabs. > > I will have

[PyQt] Newbie QMainWindow tips

2010-09-16 Thread Eric Frederich
Trying to get my first PyQt MainWindow application going. Its going to be to edit multiple [we'll just call them] documents in tabs. I will have several dockwidgets that need to correspond to the currently selected tab. So when the tab changes, or the data within the document changes, several dock

[PyQt] Weird problem with QSystemTrayIcon

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Frederich
I looked at the example with PyQt for system tray icons and tried to use it in my application. I couldn't get it to work. I couldn't find what the example was doing that I wasn't doing. I even did the stuff in the same order. I wound up taking the example and in-lining a bunch of functions then b

[PyQt] connections vs. instance variables

2010-09-03 Thread Eric Frederich
I constantly find myself with options like... a) create a connection from foo's custom signal to bar's slot or b) when creating the foo object, give it a reference to bar, and instead of emitting a custom signal, just call bar's slot directly. What is more lightweight an instance variable

[PyQt] events / signals

2010-08-25 Thread Eric Frederich
If I find myself subclassing a widget just to get something to happen on an event am I doing something wrong? Is there another way to accomplish this? Is there a way to use an event like a signal in a self.connect? For example... If I want so do something when a label is clicked I have done the fo

Re: [PyQt] QValidator.validate() returns TypeError: invalid result type

2010-08-14 Thread Eric Frederich
Whoops, didn't realize I took this conversation off the mailing list. So, does this mean it is not possible then to have a validator in Python2 fix the string? On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Phil Thompson wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:57:45 -0400, Eric Frederich > wrote: > &

[PyQt] QValidator.validate() returns TypeError: invalid result type

2010-08-04 Thread Eric Frederich
Reading the documentation here... http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qvalidator.html ... I see that the validate() function is listed twice. One returning (State, QString, int) and another returning just (State, int) I would think this means I have the choice to return eit