Try putting myWindow.repaint() before myWindow.show(). That took away the weird behavior on my end. I cannot explain it, though.
On 10/22/14, Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net> wrote: > In looking at the lists archives, I see that most of the participants > seem to be experienced developers. As a novice programmer I hope I am > not intruding by asking some basic questions. > > I am working my way through examples in a PySide book I bought. > According to the author the example should display a 200 x 150 window, > pause 3 seconds and then display a 300 x 300 window. On my system > (Ubuntu 12.04) there is a approx 3 second delay after starting the > program and then I see the 300 x 300 window. I never see the first window. > > Could someone explain to me why it does not act as described? > > # Import required modules > import sys > import time > from PySide.QtGui import QApplication, QWidget > > class SampleWindow(QWidget): > """ Our main window class > """ > > # Constructor function > def __init__(self): > QWidget.__init__(self) > self.setWindowTitle("Sample Window") > self.setGeometry(300, 300, 200, 150) > self.setMinimumHeight(100) > self.setMinimumWidth(250) > self.setMaximumHeight(200) > self.setMaximumWidth(800) > > if __name__ == '__main__': > # Exception Handling > try: > myApp = QApplication(sys.argv) > myWindow = SampleWindow() > myWindow.show() > time.sleep(3) > myWindow.resize(300, 300) > myWindow.setWindowTitle("Sample Window Resized") > myWindow.repaint() > myApp.exec_() > sys.exit(0) > except NameError: > print("Name Error:", sys.exc_info()[1]) > except SystemExit: > print("Closing Window...") > except Exception: > print (sys.exc_info()[1]) > > Thanks, Jim > > _______________________________________________ > PySide mailing list > PySide@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside > _______________________________________________ PySide mailing list PySide@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside