On Saturday 06 February 2010 10:32, Andrew wrote: > I'm attempting to create a drop down property for a custom widget I'm > creating. So when in designer and you scroll down to the custom > properties, under the regular widget properties, one of them would be > a drop down menu. The data to populate it will be coming from our API > and currently is a list of string-items. Yes, it would be treated > specially by Designer, since it's the only place it would be seen.
Right. The drop down menus in the property editor usually contain values defined for C++ enums which have been declared to Qt's meta-object system when a C++ library or plugin is compiled. I'm not sure that PyQt can expose lists of Python values in the same way. An example of this is the alignment property in QLineEdit. > In the PyQt4\examples\designer folder, it carries a number of custom > widgets that will load into designer. The datetimeedit widget creates > a custom drop down menu property. The plugin pulls its information > from the QtCore libraries and from the QCalander Widget. Though I am > unable to find a better example or even explanation of how it's > actually creating that drop down menu. Each of the individual properties are just single values, aren't they, not collections of values? >> Have you seen this article? >> >> http://qt.nokia.com/doc/qq/qq26-pyqtdesigner.html > > No, I haven't, thanks. That might step in the right direction. I can't > run it right now, so I'm not sure if it is putting a spinbox as it's > property or just the value from the spin box. The value from each spin box is turned into a property, so there are latitude and longitude properties, though each of these only holds a double precision floating point number. It sounds like you want to be able to select from a list of values, or possibly change the values themselves. If it turns out you can't add a property to Qt Designer in the way you want, you can still add a custom editor to the widget so that users can open a context menu and select an item to configure it. This is similar to the way you can open a dialog to edit the text inside QTextEdit widgets. The article I referred to also covers this: http://qt.nokia.com/doc/qq/qq26-pyqtdesigner.html#makingamenu David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list