Toggling QPixmap image

cerr

Hi,

I need to display a "flashing" QPixmap.
I currently have a static pixmap that gets displayed like so: self.Lab1Icon.setPixmap(self.red) and I want it to toggle between two different pixmaps (let's say self.red & self.clr). How do I best go about this? Should I use the QTimer class' interval feature and update a global to toggle between two states?

SGaist

Hi,

No, globales are not needed. Just have a list containing your various pixmap, a counter and in the slot you connect to your QTimer, increment the counter and set the new current image on your label. All of them shall be class members.

cerr

I came up with something like the below, and while it does work functionally, it still makes use of a global to keep the state of the list between two function calls:

import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtCore import QTimer

# Create an PyQT4 application object.
a = QApplication(sys.argv)

# The QWidget widget is the base class of all user interface objects in PyQt4.
w = QWidget()

# Set window size.
w.resize(320, 240)

# Set window title
w.setWindowTitle("Hello World!")

redPM = QPixmap('red.gif')
clrPM = QPixmap('clr.gif')
listPM = [ redPM, clrPM ]
lbl = QLabel('Hello World!', w)
lbl.move(100, 80)
lbl.setPixmap(redPM)
lbl.resize(lbl.sizeHint())
i = 0

def toggle():
    global i
    if i == 1:
        lbl.setPixmap(listPM[0])
        i=0
    else:
        lbl.setPixmap(listPM[1])
        i=1

tmr = QTimer()
tmr.timeout.connect(toggle)
tmr.setInterval(500)
tmr.start()




# Show window
w.show()

sys.exit(a.exec_())

Mh now thinking about it, would it be more ressource efficient to display an animated gif as QMovie instead?

SGaist

That depends on how many of these you are going to have and their size.

cerr

@SGaist I'm going to have only one for the time being. The size is 118x118.but I'm actually going to leave it as I have it above as it offers easy flexibility to adjust the frequency as required. As always, Thanks for your help!

SGaist

You're welcome !

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