Solved Best Practice to load .ui files
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I've seen a lot of mixed methods on the web for importing ui into a custom class inhered from a QMainWindow or widget. In this example let us use a QMainWindow where I'd be build a large application. I'm trying to find the best practices for using a ui file.
I'm aware of the conversion of the ui to .py files with pyqt5, but I really like the flexibility to pop into designer and update the ui file and see instance changes.
So far I've been using this method:from PySide2 import QtCore, QtWidgets, QtUiTools import os class ImportUi(QtWidgets.QMainWindow): def __init__(self): QtWidgets.QMainWindow.__init__(self) loader = QtUiTools.QUiLoader() script_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__) main_ui_path = 'gui.ui' self.ui = loader.load(os.path.join(script_dir, main_ui_path)) print(self.ui.named_table_widget) if __name__ == '__main__': import sys app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv) gui = ImportUi() gui.ui.show() rec = app.exec_() sys.exit(rec)
Is there a way the ImportUi class can inherit from the returned QMainWindow from the loader? So I would not have to store the ui in the class instance variable? Basically is there a way i could access self.named_table_widget without having to go through the self.ui? I've seen you can pass a parent widget to the .load() argument, but using "self" didn't give me the results i was hoping for.
Or is there a completely better approach to all of this?Cheers
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Hi,
No there is not. QUiLoader::load returns a new QWidget that you can then use. The parent parameter just makes said widget a child of the parent.
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Thanks SGaist, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.
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@alom said in Best Practice to load .ui files:
Thanks SGaist, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something
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