Yep that was a typo - should have been statusBar.showMessage()
On Saturday, May 12, 2012 4:04:43 PM UTC-7, Justin Israel wrote:
>
> I think that approach works just fine. They obviously didn't use the
> QMainWindow status bar when they built the UI. Its just a separate child.
> It would have been more convenient for you if in their code they had done
> .setStatusBar() to their child widget so that calling .statusBar() would
> return it.
>
> Typo?
> statusBar.showMessage()
>
> instead of...
>
> statusBar.setMessage()
>
>
>
>
> On May 11, 2012, at 4:44 PM, jdob wrote:
>
> I have the main window as a pyqt object and wanted to set the status
> message using QMainWindow's statusBar(). Simple enough, right? Well, it
> seems that QMainWindow.statusBar() expects the status bar to be a child of
> the main window (directly) or it will create a new one - bummer. This is
> kind of a problem since maya's status bar is buried buried way down in a
> toolbar.
>
> I found a workaround that works but I have to make some assumptions, so
> I'm wondering if anyone else has a better solution. Here's what I'm doing:
>
> # get main window as a pyqt widget
> from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
> import maya.OpenMayaUI as mui
> import sip
> ptr = mui.MQtUtil.mainWindow()
> mainWindow = sip.wrapinstance(long(ptr), QtCore.QObject)
>
> # now I'm in pyqt land...
> statusBar = mainWindow.findChild(QtGui.QStatusBar)
> statusBar.setMessage('would you like to play a game?')
>
> Anybody got a better solution?
>
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