Thanks for the tips Justin!  I think I read Nathan's post about super
classing the ui to gain access to the ui.setup method. I'll experiment with
it :)

Thanks

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Justin Israel <[email protected]>wrote:

> Also, I just wanted to point out that the way you are using your UI file
> is less than desirable. There are a couple recommended approaches you can
> use here:
> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/designer-using-a-ui-file.html
>
> But if you just load it into self.ui and then start doing self.ui.show(),
> your main window has not been set up by the ui. That is, your main window
> is never really showing. Only the new widgets set up in the ui. No show
> events, resize events etc.
> Ideally you would do something like:
> self.ui.setupUi(self)
> Now your main window would be set up and you can do self.show()
> Just a suggestion.
>
>
>
> On May 2, 2012, at 1:49 AM, Panupat Chongstitwattana <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Ah got it. It's working now, thanks :)
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:48 PM, David Moulder <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> python garbage collection doing it's work.  "test" is dying after the
>> function is finished and your UI is automatically closed.  You need a
>> global to keep it alive.
>>
>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Panupat Chongstitwattana <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Maya 2012 x64 on Windows here. Here's a simple class loading the ui file.
>>>
>>> class UI(QtGui.QMainWindow):
>>>     def __init__(self, parent=None):
>>>         QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
>>>         self.ui = uic.loadUi(PATH)
>>>
>>> If I execute these command on their own, the UI shows up no problem.
>>>
>>> test = loginUI()
>>>
>>> test.ui.show()
>>>
>>>
>>> But if I wrap those in a function, the UI would show up for an instant
>>> and closes itself.
>>>
>>> def testui():
>>>     test = loginUI()
>>>     test.ui.show()
>>> testui()
>>>
>>> What could be the cause of it? Am I missing something?
>>> Thanks
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