Bur's implementation is very nice. I've modified the widgets paintEvent method to add a Maya style look to them. I can post back up if people are interested.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Jo Jürgens <jojurg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice work! > > Blur Studios have published all their pipeline scripts, and there's a > pretty nice collapsible groupBox there. Might be interesting to have a look > at. > > You can download a Windows installer from > http://code.google.com/p/blur-dev/. If you just want the groupbox script, > I pasted it here: http://pastebin.com/ZFUrj7sm > > > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Manuel Macha <man...@manuelmacha.de>wrote: > >> I'm on pyqt 4.7.3. The mistake that I was making was that I defined the >> signal inside my init method. >> Thanks Justin, I'll definitely stick with the new syntax from now on. >> p.s: here's a working example: http://pastebin.com/zcTVbat0 >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Justin Israel >> <justinisr...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> New style signal slots were introduced in Qt 4.5. Maybe you are using a >>> really old version of Qt? >>> >>> >>> >>> On May 10, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Manuel Macha <man...@manuelmacha.de> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Justin, >>> many thanks for your help. >>> I've cleaned up the mousePressEvent method as suggested (the original >>> was eclipse's suggested default syntax for overriding a method) >>> I'd prefer using the new-style signal-slots mechanism but in this case I >>> couldn't get it to work, even trying several variations of the example that >>> you've given. >>> As for breaking the UI-setup into a bunch of smaller methods. I think I >>> saw that in some book and found it helped me with breaking stuff into >>> meaningful subtasks. I'm aware that it inflates the code and it's uncommon >>> to do things that way but for me it's working. >>> Anyways, here's how far I got with the frameLayout. I've added the >>> collapse-arrow and a label: >>> http://pastebin.com/qYgDDYsB >>> >>> Regards, >>> Manuel >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Justin Israel >>> <justinisr...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> I don't think there is anything wrong with the approach you are taking. >>>> This is the norm. The framework can't provide every type of functionality, >>>> but they do give you a ton of building blocks to make it easy to compose >>>> your own. >>>> >>>> There isn't much to say about your code other than me nit picking a >>>> little :-) >>>> But here are some small things... >>>> >>>> def mousePressEvent(self, *args, **kwargs): >>>> self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL('clicked()')) >>>> return QtGui.QFrame.mousePressEvent(self, *args, **kwargs) >>>> >>>> An event method will only receive a single event argument, and you >>>> don't need to return anything. Right now this would be returning None all >>>> the time. You can just take the single event arg, and then call the >>>> superclass method with it. >>>> >>>> Also, you might want to consider using the new-style signal-slots if >>>> you are just learning... >>>> You can define signals as class attributes like this: >>>> >>>> class TitleFrame(QtGui.QFrame): >>>> clicked = QtCore.pyqtSignal() >>>> >>>> ... And then you can emit like this: >>>> >>>> self.clicked.emit() >>>> >>>> ... And connections to the slot in your other class would be like: >>>> >>>> self.titleFrame.clicked.connect(self.printSomething) >>>> >>>> Its much cleaner and easier to use. And you can create signals with >>>> different signatures and slots of the same name that take different >>>> signatures. >>>> >>>> Thats pretty much it. Like I said, the rest is just nit-picking (I find >>>> it more obscure to define your UI setup in a bunch of smaller methods that >>>> you call in a row, when they depend on each other, such as needing to >>>> connect the signal and knowing that the UI object is there). >>>> >>>> >>>> On May 10, 2012, at 4:50 AM, Manuel Macha wrote: >>>> >>>> One thing I really miss with PyQt is having a Maya-style collapsible >>>> frameLayout readily available, so I hacked this together: >>>> http://pastebin.com/5y8tsBE7 >>>> It's pretty simple at the moment. There's neither a label nor an icon >>>> indicating the collapsed state. >>>> Before I spend too much time on it, could you guys pls have a look and >>>> tell me if this is a valid approach? (I just started familiarizing myself >>>> with qt a few weeks ago) >>>> In case this is way of doing things is not a good idea I'd appreciate >>>> if someone could push me into the right direction (or ideally share their >>>> working frameLayout code with the rest of us), otherwise any help in making >>>> this better is greatly appreciated. >>>> Regards, >>>> m >>>> p.s. are there any websites that have custom pyqt widgets for download? >>>> I didn't really find anything through google. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >>>> change your subscription settings: >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >>>> change your subscription settings: >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >>> change your subscription settings: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe >>> >>> -- >>> view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >>> change your subscription settings: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe >>> >> >> -- >> view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >> change your subscription settings: >> http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe >> > > -- > view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > change your subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe > -- David Moulder http://www.google.com/profiles/squish3d -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
