App without main window - with many widgets showing one by one

her_dom

I would like to have app without main window, but with many widgets showing one by one (dialogs won't work for me).

I have following code:
@# -- coding: utf-8 --
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

from start_window import Ui_Form
from second_window import Ui_Form as Ui_Form_Second

class StartForm(QtGui.QWidget):
def init(self, parent=None):
QtGui.QWidget.init(self, parent)
self.ui = Ui_Form()
self.ui.setupUi(self)
self.ui.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.button)

def button(self):
    secondWindow = SecondForm()
    secondWindow.show()
    self.hide()

class SecondForm(QtGui.QWidget):
def init(self, parent=None):
QtGui.QWidget.init(self, parent)
self.ui = Ui_Form_Second()
self.ui.setupUi(self)

if name == "main":
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
myapp = StartForm()
myapp.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())@

When I press button app closes. How to pass execution of the app to the second widget? I am not interested in using QWizard and QStackedWidget.

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Then you have to either open the next widget before closing the last (because by default closing the "main" widget will end the application) or disable application ending on last widget closed and re-enable it when appropriate.

Just curiosity, why doesn't any of the current Qt technology fit in your design ?

qurban_ali36

Hi
The problem with your current logic is that, you are saving the reference of "secondForm" in "secondWindow" which is a local variable and destroyed when execution of "button" function is completed. You have to put the reference of "secondForm" in "self.secondWindow", everything else is fine.

jazzycamel

As Qurban says your problem is that you're "secondWindow" is going out of scope. What you're basically trying to do is create a managed stack of parentless windows (i.e. a QStackWidget without the actual widget). The following is a simplistic example that uses a subclass if QApplication to manage both the widgets and the transitions between them:

@
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

class Window(QWidget):
next=pyqtSignal()
prev=pyqtSignal()

def __init__(self, title, **kwargs):
    QWidget.__init__(self, **kwargs)

    self.resize(320,240)
    self.setWindowTitle(title)
    l=QVBoxLayout(self)
    l.addWidget(QPushButton("Prev", self, clicked=self.prev))
    l.addWidget(QPushButton("Next", self, clicked=self.next))

class Application(QApplication):
def init(self, *args, **kwargs):
QApplication.init(self, *args, **kwargs)

    self._index=None
    self._windows=[Window(t, next=self.next, prev=self.prev) for t in ["Window 1", "Window 2", "Window 3"]]
    self.next()

@pyqtSlot()
def prev(self):
    if self._index in (None, 0): return

    self._windows[self._index].hide()
    self._index-=1
    self._windows[self._index].show()
    self._windows[self._index].raise_()

@pyqtSlot()
def next(self):
    if self._index>=(len(self._windows)-1): return
    if self._index is not None:
        self._windows[self._index].hide()
        self._index+=1
    else: self._index=0

    self._windows[self._index].show()
    self._windows[self._index].raise_()

if name=="main":
from sys import argv, exit

a=Application(argv)
exit(a.exec_())

@

Hope this helps ;o)

her_dom

Thank you guys for your answers!

I solved this by adding two lines (for sure it works, but is it OK?:):

@# -- coding: utf-8 --
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
from start_window import Ui_Form
from second_window import Ui_Form as Ui_Form_Second

class StartForm(QtGui.QWidget):
def init(self, parent=None):
QtGui.QWidget.init(self, parent)
self.ui = Ui_Form()
self.ui.setupUi(self)
self.child_windows = None # this one
self.ui.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.button)

def button(self):
    secondWindow = SecondForm()
    secondWindow.show()
    self.child_windows = secondWindow # this one
    self.hide()

class SecondForm(QtGui.QWidget):
def init(self, parent=None):
QtGui.QWidget.init(self, parent)
self.ui = Ui_Form_Second()
self.ui.setupUi(self)

if name == "main":
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
myapp = StartForm()
myapp.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())@

I am just wondering if this approach doesn't leave any garbages in memory, like closed forms?

I ma not using QWizard because this is going to be something more than widget with "Next" and "Previous" buttons. Nor QStackedWidget since, at some point, I want to have more than one visible widget at a time.