Best Practice to load .ui files

alom

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

SGaist

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.

alom

Thanks SGaist, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Pablo J. Rogina

@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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