Pop-up with colors and data

jsulm

@john_hobbyist said in Pop-up with colors and data:

which I try to figure out how to solve it

That's why I suggested to read https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwidget.html#setLayout
Especially this part:
"If there already is a layout manager installed on this widget, QWidget won't let you install another. You must first delete the existing layout manager (returned by layout()) before you can call setLayout() with the new layout."

john_hobbyist

@jsulm said in Pop-up with colors and data:

If there already is a layout manager installed on this widget

When to code runs, it opens a main window/GUI, and when the user chooses from the menu (QAction) , he can open an auxiliary window with some information. What should I delete? Both of them are required...

Can you give me an example code, in order to understand?

john_hobbyist

As I checked from here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/layout.html under paragraph: "Qt's Layout Classes":

I use these classes:

QHBoxLayout

and

QSizePolicy

under this method (and after that is the method I described previously):

class Thing(QMainWindow):
   def __init__(self, parent = None):
      . . . 
      (here are the QHBoxLayout and QSizePolicy used)
	  . . . 

   def PrintGridLayout (self):
      def PrintGridLayout (self):
      win = QWidget()
      grid=QGridLayout()
    
      grid.addWidget(QLabel("Yellow"), 1,1)
      grid.addWidget(QPushButton("B"+str(1)+str(2)),1,2)
      grid.addWidget(QLabel("Red"), 2,1)
      grid.addWidget(QPushButton("B"+str(2)+str(2)),2,2)
      grid.addWidget(QLabel("Blue"), 3,1)
      grid.addWidget(QPushButton("B"+str(3)+str(2)),3,2)
    
      win.setLayout(grid)
      win.setGeometry(100,100,200,100)
      win.setWindowTitle("PyQt")
      win.show()

So how do I delete the existing layout manager? And especially since they are on a different class??

JonB

@john_hobbyist

win = QWidget()
...
win.setLayout(grid)

I would not expect this code to generate

QWidget::setLayout: Attempting to set QLayout "" on TestCode"", which already has a layout

since a blank QWidget does not already have a layout. OTOH, I would expect mainWindow.setLayout() to do so, because QMainWindow does start with a layout. So where exactly are you getting the error from? (I believe Python reports the source code line number in its full message?)

When you copy & paste your code here, could you please take the time to do so correctly, as incorrect code pasting wastes peoples' time trying to understand. I very much doubt your code actually has

   def PrintGridLayout (self):
      def PrintGridLayout (self):

as you show.

john_hobbyist

@JonB Ok, no problem with this message. The code worked for many days...! Ok, I will try to be more careful with copying.. My concern now is how do I delete the existing layout manager?

JonB

@john_hobbyist said in Pop-up with colors and data:

My concern now is how do I delete the existing layout manager?

Why do you want to delete if you do not get an error message? If you do get an error message, I asked you where it came from? I am totally uncertain what situation you are in, your posts are unclear.

john_hobbyist

@JonB Ι re-post:

As I checked from here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/layout.html under paragraph: "Qt's Layout Classes":

I use these classes:

QHBoxLayout

and

QSizePolicy

under this method (and after that is the method I described previously):

class Thing(QMainWindow):
   def __init__(self, parent = None):
      . . . 
      (here are the QHBoxLayout and QSizePolicy used)
	  . . . 

   def PrintGridLayout (self):
      win = QWidget()
      grid=QGridLayout()
    
      grid.addWidget(QLabel("Yellow"), 1,1)
      grid.addWidget(QPushButton("B"+str(1)+str(2)),1,2)
      grid.addWidget(QLabel("Red"), 2,1)
      grid.addWidget(QPushButton("B"+str(2)+str(2)),2,2)
      grid.addWidget(QLabel("Blue"), 3,1)
      grid.addWidget(QPushButton("B"+str(3)+str(2)),3,2)
    
      win.setLayout(grid)
      win.setGeometry(100,100,200,100)
      win.setWindowTitle("PyQt")
      win.show()

So how do I delete the existing layout manager? And especially since they are on a different class??

JonB

@john_hobbyist
If you do not get an error message you have nothing to do. If you do get an error message then show it, and find the line which caused in it which I think Python will show in the message. This is the third time I have said this.

john_hobbyist

@JonB No error, the method above runs (I checked it with print commands among the code). However, no GUI is displayed with the GridLayout, Buttons e.t.c.

JonB

@john_hobbyist said in Pop-up with colors and data:

However, no GUI is displayed with the GridLayout, Buttons e.t.c.

Could you please tell me: does this mean that an "empty" widget/window is displayed (presumably with title bar PyQt) or does this mean no widget/window at all is shown?

john_hobbyist

@JonB no widget/window at all is shown for this specific method...

JonB

@john_hobbyist
So two possibilities occur to me:

You create a widget (win = QWidget()) but never "attach" it anywhere to your main window. Where do you add it to that?
Your win = QWidget() is a local reference which goes out of scope at the end of PrintGridLayout in Python, doesn't it? So won't it get destroyed, and hence no widget is shown?

So far as I can tell from what you are saying, you might as well remove all your QGridLayout code and you would see the same thing. So it has nothing to do with using the layout, it just isn't showing the widget?

john_hobbyist

@JonB said in Pop-up with colors and data:

@john_hobbyist
So two possibilities occur to me:

You create a widget (win = QWidget()) but never "attach" it anywhere to your main window. Where do you add it to that?

Your win = QWidget() is a local reference which goes out of scope at the end of PrintGridLayout in Python, doesn't it? So won't it get destroyed, and hence no widget is shown?

So far as I can tell from what you are saying, you might as well remove all your QGridLayout code and you would see the same thing. So it has nothing to do with using the layout, it just isn't showing the widget?

Nowhere
I am not sure...I think yes
Yes, either I have the method or I do not have it, it is the same thing...nothing displayed...

JonB

@john_hobbyist said in Pop-up with colors and data:

Yes, either I have the method or I do not have it, it is the same thing...nothing displayed...

So you should start by mentioning that! :)

Can we take a step back. What are you trying to do? You have a QMainWindow. That comes with its own layout, all described in Qt Main Window Framework. Are you just wanting to set its central widget to this grid?

If per your title it's supposed to be a "popup" window, you'd have to look up "popup", or use a modeless dialog, I'm not sure about that bit.

For now, try changing your

win = QWidget()

to

self.win = QWidget(self)

and obviously those mentions of win... to self.win.... Better?

john_hobbyist

@JonB said in Pop-up with colors and data:

@john_hobbyist said in Pop-up with colors and data:

Yes, either I have the method or I do not have it, it is the same thing...nothing displayed...

So you should start by mentioning that! :)

Can we take a step back. What are you trying to do? You have a QMainWindow. That comes with its own layout, all described in Qt Main Window Framework. Are you just wanting to set its central widget to this grid?

If per your title it's supposed to be a "popup" window, you'd have to look up "popup", or use a modeless dialog, I'm not sure about that bit.

For now, try changing your
win = QWidget()
to
self.win = QWidget(self)
and obviously those mentions of win... to self.win.... Better?

I have a QMainWindow that opens, everything ok. It has menus where you choose what you want to see. In one of these menus I have a choice, where, when you choose it a new window should pop-up and show colored boxes and buttons...

Yes, I tried it with self.win = QWidget(self) nothing changed, again nothing was displayed....

JonB

@john_hobbyist
Then I give up. You do call PrintGridLayout(), don't you, and you have checked it is being executed...?

john_hobbyist

@JonB said in Pop-up with colors and data:

@john_hobbyist
Then I give up. You do call PrintGridLayout(), don't you, and you have checked it is being executed...?

Yes I call it from main program like that:

test = QAction("Testing Layout", self) 
file.addAction(test) # here
test.triggered.connect(self.PrintGridLayout)

Yes the code runs, but the window is not displayed....

Thanks for your try and your time though... :-)

john_hobbyist

It needed:

self.setLayout(grid)

Thanks for you time! I mark it as solved!

JonB

@john_hobbyist
If you decided you wanted self.setLayout(grid) --- inside PrintGridLayout () so self is Thing(QMainWindow) right? --- could you explain to me what you wanted the whole win = QWidget() for??

Not to mention that if self is a QMainWindow and you go self.setLayout() you should be back to getting the "which already has a layout" warning?