Unsolved How to add navigation to application
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Hello, first off I am new to PyQt5, so I apologize if I make a mistake in my explanation.
Background
I am building a desktop application, and I am trying to figure out how to navigate to a new page once an event is triggered such as a click on a QPushButton. Right now, I have a login page, and I would like to display the user's dashboard if they use the correct credentials.Problem
The issue I am having is understanding how to do the actual updating to the screen. If possible, I would like to have two classes one for the login screen, and another for the dashboard and then just replace the login part with the dashboard when it's needed. I have tried to do something like this, but I end up with 2 individual windows rather than just updating the current window. I might be able to write some messy logic that would utilize the .close() and .show() methods, but I would imagine there is a cleaner way to do so.A Brief Version of My Code
# This class is for displaying the simple login screen class Login(QtWidgets.QMainWindow): def __init__(self): super(Login, self).__init__() login_path = ".//UI Files//login.ui" uic.loadUi(os.path.join(login_path, "login.ui"), self) self.loginbutton = self.findChild(QtWidgets.QPushButton,"loginbutton") self.usernamefield = self.findChild(QtWidgets.QLineEdit, "usernamefield") self.passwordfield = self.findChild(QtWidgets.QLineEdit, "passwordfield") def sometypeoffunction(self): # This function would just verify the credentials # This class would be for displaying the dashboard class MainUI(QtWidgets.QMainWindow): def __init__(self): super(MainUI, self).__init__() ui_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) uic.loadUi(os.path.join(ui_path, "mainui.ui"), self) # Sidebar assignments self.logo = self.findChild(QtWidgets.QLabel,"logo") self.newpatientbuttion = self.findChild(QtWidgets.QLabel,"newpatientbutton") self.graphlist = QtWidgets.QListWidget(self) temp = ["One", "Two", "Three"] self.graphlist.addItems(temp) self.graphlist.setGeometry(8,190,191,241) self.graphlist.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(209, 102, 24); border:none; color:white") self.graphlist.setFont(QtGui.QFont("Ariel", 14)) self.graphlist.setCursor(QtGui.QCursor(QtCore.Qt.PointingHandCursor)) #Topbar assignemts self.searchbar = self.findChild(QtWidgets.QLineEdit, "lineEdit") self.logoutbutton = self.findChild(QtWidgets.QLabel,"logoutbutton") self.confirmbutton = self.findChild(QtWidgets.QPushButton, "confirmbutton") def main(): app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv) login = Login() login.show() # I would need some way to not show window until the login is verified window = MainUI() window.show() app.exec_() if __name__ == "__main__": main()
My WireFrame for Context
I want to start off from a login page as so
Then once the user logs in, the application should update as so,
From within this dashboard, it would as update as so
My Take
I believe that my problem here is that both classes inherit from QMainWindow however, I am not exactly how to handle this situation. Should just the Login class inherit from this class? If so, then what should MainUI inherit from? I could be completely wrong, but I wanted to attempted this before asking for help. If someone could explain to me what I am doing wrong I would greatly appreciate it. I haven't been able to find many similar examples so, I am running out of solutions I can think of. Thank you. -
@Kyler The log-in window does not have to be a main window. Simply use a widget without parent - it will be shown as window. Or better use QDialog for that.