Actually in your case using loadUi you could just do this for now:
self.ui = uic.loadUi("uifile.ui", self)
This will use your main window as the base class
On May 2, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Panupat Chongstitwattana <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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