Displaying real-time data on a 2nd window

JonB

Everytime I move the mouse pointer (on the map) to different places, the second window should update the values and show new data, which does not happen.

Show the code you use to connect the mouse move signal or event in the first window to the slot in the second window.

If you say everything works when you output the town name on the terminal (print() maybe?), and now want to display it on a QTextEdit instead, then as I already said all you have to do is call the line edit's setText().

john_hobbyist

class Town(QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.initUI()
        
    def initUI(self):
        import sys
        from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QWidget,QPushButton,QApplication,QListWidget,QGridLayout,QLabel
        from PyQt5.QtCore import QTimer,QDateTime
        from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
        from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow
        from PyQt5 import QtCore
        
        win = QWidget()
        grid=QGridLayout()
       
        import pandas
        ct = pandas.read_csv('CurrentTown.csv')
        town = QLabel("town:")
        town.setStyleSheet("border: 1px solid black; background-color: yellow")  
        grid.addWidget(town, 1,1)
        textEdit_1 = QLineEdit(ct)
        textEdit_1.textChanged[str].connect(self.onChanged)
        textEdit_1.setReadOnly(True)
        grid.addWidget(textEdit_1,1,2)

        
        import os
        os.remove('CurrentTown.csv')
    
        self.setLayout(grid)
        win.setGeometry(100,100,200,100)
        win.setWindowTitle("Test")
        win.show()
        
    def onChanged(self, text):
         self.textEdit_1.setText(str(ct))

Any ideas??

JonB

@john_hobbyist said in Displaying real-time data on a 2nd window:

textEdit_1.textChanged[str].connect(self.onChanged)

I already said. You think you want to connect QLineEdit.textChanged signal to do something. That is when something changes the text. But you don't have anything changing the text. You need a signal for when the file content changes to connect to a slot to change the text in the line edit.

You claimed you had it working printing on terminal fine, but I don't see that.

Conceptually the code you have to read the file must be in a method called when the text in the file is changed. You have all this code in the constructor of the Town widget, which cannot be right.

There is no connection at all between your textEdit_1 = QLineEdit(ct) and the self.textEdit_1.setText(str(ct)) you use later. Please review local versus member variables in Python.

You don't want to have any self.textEdit_1 in class Town as the line edit you want to address is not on the Town widget, it is on the win widget.

Start by creating a separate Python module and class for your second window. Put the code to read the file and set the line edit text there. Then in this Town module create an instance of that class and show it. In Town you will have some connection like:

self.signalForFileDataChanged.connect(self.otherWindow.onFileDataChanged)

where the second window's onFileDataChanged() reads the new text from the file and sets its line edit.

When you have that working you may see that you could have the Town.signalForFileDataChanged() signal send a parameter of the new town name to the OtherWindow.onFileDataChanged() slot for it to show. Then you can ditch having them communicate via the content of an external file.

john_hobbyist

I have another method that I want to call from another class. I have this code:

class Two(CentralWindow):
    def do_something(self, checked):
    . . .

I want to call the do_something method from initUI(self) ??
I have tried google search solutions, but they show to call a method outside a class/method. I need to call the do_something method from inside initUI(self) method....

JonB

@john_hobbyist
Fundamental Python. Nothing special about initUI(self).

From within class Two: self.do_something(checked).
From outside class Two: class_two_instance.do_something(checked).

john_hobbyist

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john_hobbyist

In order to start from somewhere, after your very useful comments I did a change in the code so that when the ct changes to call the method def onChanged(self, text) which prints "OK". However, this happens only the first time that ct changes value. All the next times it does not print "OK"...What do I miss here???

SGaist

I may sound harsh but: proper architecture.

I would suggest to start with something really minimal to just learn to use signals and slots properly, how to manage multiple different complex widgets that are only linked together by signals and slots.

john_hobbyist

I am trying! How can I call a method before declaring it?

SGaist

You just don't.

As I already suggested: start with Qt's basics.

Single widget with signals and slots within it.
Second widget completely unrelated to the first one
Connect them only after they both properly work independently
While doing that: write unit tests

john_hobbyist

@SGaist Thank you, I will try it.

Please tell me a reason that the code runs commands such as open/make a widget + QLinedit + QLabels (I checked it with print commands) but I see only the widget (window) and nothing inside... What is wrong?

jsulm

@john_hobbyist said in Displaying real-time data on a 2nd window:

What is wrong?

Please show the code, else only guessing is possible!
Did you add these widgets to your container widget (main window or whatever)?

john_hobbyist

I am trying to embed a grid layout to the right side of the mainwidget. Imagine that I have divided the mainwidget area into 2 areas, left and side. I get this error though:

File "code.py", line 1643, in __init__
  mylayout.addWidget(self.imageviewer, 1, 1)
TypeError: addWidget(self, QWidget, stretch: int = 0, alignment: Union[Qt.Alignment, Qt.AlignmentFlag] = Qt.Alignment()): argument 3 has unexpected type 'int'

What did I do wrong?

SGaist

Are you sure mylayout is a QGridLayout ?

john_hobbyist

I have it like this:

mylayout = QHBoxLayout()

SGaist

So since it's a QHBoxLayout, why are you trying to use it like a grid layout ?

The error message tells you exactly the problem you have. If you read the method documentation, you'll see that the second parameter shall be a value from the Alignment enum.

john_hobbyist

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JonB

@john_hobbyist said in Displaying real-time data on a 2nd window:

mylayout.addWidget(self.imageviewer, 1, 1)

You're not reading @SGaist's replies and understanding/acting on them. Anyway, what do you intend this line to do?

john_hobbyist

@SGaist @JonB: You are right!!!! Thanks!

john_hobbyist

I call the above class each time the mouse pointer changes position. The problem is that nothing is shown..but the print commands that I have embed between the below commands work!
Why?
I call it like this:

w = Town()
w.show()

This is the class that I call

class Town(QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        import sys
        from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QWidget,QPushButton,QApplication,QListWidget,QGridLayout,QLabel
        from PyQt5.QtCore import QTimer,QDateTime
        from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
        from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow
        from PyQt5 import QtCore
        
        win = QWidget()
        grid=QGridLayout()
       
        import pandas
        ct = pandas.read_csv('CurrentTown.csv')
        town = QLabel("town:")
        town.setStyleSheet("border: 1px solid black; background-color: yellow")  
        grid.addWidget(town, 1,1)
        textEdit_1 = QLineEdit(ct)
        textEdit_1.setReadOnly(True)
        grid.addWidget(textEdit_1,1,2)

        
        import os
        os.remove('CurrentTown.csv')
    
        self.setLayout(grid)
        win.setGeometry(100,100,200,100)
        win.setWindowTitle("Test")
        win.show()
        win.update()