Let me clarify one thing. When I said QVBoxLayout.whatever, I am obviously referring to your own vertical layout in the tab that will contain all the LightItems
On Oct 8, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Justin Israel wrote: > Here is what I would suggest.. > > Create your splitter widget as a custom widget; lets call it LightItem > Install the LightItem as the event filter for the QLineEdit. You would do > that in your LightItem class with self.theLineEdit.installEventFilter(self) > Create the eventFilter() method (see QObject), and have it watch for a > KeyPress on the QLineEdit. If it is key UP or key DOWN, emit a custom signal. > Lets call it moveItemRequested(int) , where int is either Qt.Key_Up or > Qt.Key_Down. > You can either also have that signal send the reference to the LightItem > widget, or, refer to self.sender() in the receiving slot later. > Now your custom LightItem emits a custom signal for a key up or down > When you loop over the lights (for i in lightTransforms)... > Create a new LightItem for that light > connect the LightItem.moveItemRequested() to a slot that will handle any item > moves. Lets call it moveLightItem(direction). > moveLightItem(direction) will receive either Qt.Key_Up or Qt.Key_Down. And if > you also passed the reference to the LightItem object emitting the signal, > you will have that. Or you can check it with self.sender() > Get the current index of the widget with QVBoxLayout.indexOf(theLightItem) > If the key was UP, move the LightItem with > QVBoxLayout.insertWidget(max(cur_index-1, 0), theLightItem)) > If the key was DOWN, move the lightItem with > QVBoxLayout.insertWidget(min(cur_index+1, layout.count()-1)) > > Hope that helps. Let me know if you get stuck on any of the specific code. > > -- justin > > > On Oct 8, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Berg Jones wrote: > >> I'm looking for an easy way to move dynamically created splitter widgets >> within a vertical layout in pyqt. I know what the hard way is. >> >> I have: >> >> a top level gridlayout >> a scroll layout >> a tab layout >> a vert layout within the tab >> N dynamically created horizontal splitters >> The user wants the ability to change the order of the splitters. I build the >> light list dynamically according to the number of lights in the scene with >> the following: >> >> def buildLightList(self): >> lightShapes = cmds.ls(lights=True) >> if lightShapes: >> lightTransforms = cmds.listRelatives(lightShapes, >> p=True) >> >> for i in lightTransforms: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> What I would like is if you press pageUp or PageDn while selecting the >> lineEdit widget on the lift this will raise or lower the splitter. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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
