Re: [PyQt] QDockwidget advice needed

2010-09-07 Thread Algis Kabaila
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 04:57:17 Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Dear Al, > > On Saturday 21 August 2010, 03:42:22 Algis Kabaila wrote: > > > Not exactly, but who cares. AFAICS, all you need is the Signals and > > > Slots chapter. Unfortunately, it misses the new style signals (because > > > Phil

Re: [PyQt] QDockwidget advice needed

2010-09-06 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Dear Al, On Saturday 21 August 2010, 03:42:22 Algis Kabaila wrote: > > Not exactly, but who cares. AFAICS, all you need is the Signals and > > Slots chapter. Unfortunately, it misses the new style signals (because > > Phil invented them later), but you should get hold of them from the > > beginnin

Re: [PyQt] QDockwidget advice needed

2010-08-20 Thread Algis Kabaila
> Not exactly, but who cares. AFAICS, all you need is the Signals and Slots > chapter. Unfortunately, it misses the new style signals (because Phil > invented them later), but you should get hold of them from the beginning. > Much less to type, better type checking, and no silly Qt types anymor

Re: [PyQt] QDockwidget advice needed

2010-08-19 Thread danny
thanks Pete, I think you have answered my question. I am not supposed to manage the dock window as a tree item viewer, but rather as a tree viewer, just like any other. In other words it is another view of the tree that only happens to show details of one node at a time. That way the signals and

Re: [PyQt] QDockwidget advice needed

2010-08-18 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
On Wednesday 18 August 2010, 22:10:19 danny wrote: > FWIW, I do have Mark Summerfield's book and I agree it is brilliant. > > However, he does not give an example of how to connect a dock window to a > tree item. His examples include how to keep two widgets synchronized, but > that is not my proble

Re: [PyQt] QDockwidget advice needed

2010-08-18 Thread fpp
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:10 PM, danny wrote: > FWIW, I do have Mark Summerfield's book and I agree it is brilliant. > However, he does not give an example of how to connect a dock window to a tree > item. His examples include how to keep two widgets synchronized, but that is > not > my problem.

Re: [PyQt] QDockwidget advice needed

2010-08-18 Thread danny
FWIW, I do have Mark Summerfield's book and I agree it is brilliant. However, he does not give an example of how to connect a dock window to a tree item. His examples include how to keep two widgets synchronized, but that is not my problem. The problem with the tree and dock window, is that the *o

Re: [PyQt] QDockwidget advice needed

2010-08-18 Thread fpp
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > As you seem to be in the early stages of approaching Qt, you read Mark > Summerfields book "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt" already? You > don't? What a pity. Read it. And no, I'm not affiliated in any way to Mark > nor P&H, o

Re: [PyQt] QDockwidget advice needed

2010-08-18 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
On Wednesday 18 August 2010, 18:39:31 danny wrote: > Howdy, > > This is a newbie question. I want to implement the standard paradigm of a > QTreeView as the central widget in a QMainWindow, and a QDockWidget that > shows details about the selected item in the tree. I can get the > QTreeView to work

[PyQt] QDockwidget advice needed

2010-08-18 Thread danny
Howdy, This is a newbie question. I want to implement the standard paradigm of a QTreeView as the central widget in a QMainWindow, and a QDockWidget that shows details about the selected item in the tree. I can get the QTreeView to work just fine, and I can set up the gui in the QDockWidget just f