Re: [PyQt] Multithreading and plotting

2013-01-16 Thread Fabien Lafont
Hey, I found a solution! I've created the thread in the main: if __name__ == __main__: qApp = QtGui.QApplication([ ]) aw = ApplicationWindow() aw.showMaximized() thread = AThread() sys.exit(qApp.exec_()) But I run thread.start() only when clicking on my button. I'll try to

[PyQt] Compacting long file names or strings

2013-01-16 Thread Timothy W. Grove
Suppose I have a long file name such as C:\Users\Public\Videos\Sample Videos\Wildlife.wmv that I want to display on a button but there isn't enough room to display the entire name. I want to compact it down to, say, C:\Users\...\Wildlife.wmv. I'm pretty sure that I've seen a method somwhere

Re: [PyQt] Compacting long file names or strings

2013-01-16 Thread Wolfgang Rohdewald
Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2013, 09:54:43 schrieb Timothy W. Grove: Suppose I have a long file name such as C:\Users\Public\Videos\Sample Videos\Wildlife.wmv that I want to display on a button but there isn't enough room to display the entire name. I want to compact it down to, say,

Re: [PyQt] Multithreading and plotting

2013-01-16 Thread David Hoese
I know what you mean about not only if it's working, I work for a meteorology department at a University, it happens. Your solution will work, but did you try my solution? Or did mine not make sense? It might just be me, but most programmers look down on global variables. Your solution