Thanks Justin, haven't gotten around to trying it out yet but it makes a lot more sense now. I'll return if I have any other wonderings.
Best, Marcus On 23 July 2013 00:34, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: > You were actually pretty close to getting it working. Just needed a few > fixes and stuff I didn't mention before: > http://pastebin.com/fqLZSd2w > > 1) QLocalServer doesn't clean up previously used named sockets, so we have > to do it ourselves. Otherwise you could switch it to a QTcpServer and use > localhost and a port, which you won't have to clean up. > > 2) You can just save your Text field as a member attribute of your class, > so that you dont have to use findChild() > > 3) In the client, we can pass our text string but we have to make sure to > convert it to a QByteArray before writing it on the socket. We also need to > make sure to flush and close the socket, since if its a small amount of > text, it will be sitting in the buffer. > > > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Marcus Ottosson > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks Justin, really helps but I'm still confused. This is how far I got >> before running into questionmarks. >> >> http://pastebin.com/E6evz8EC >> >> from functools import partial >> from PyQt4 import QtNetwork >> >> from PyQt4.QtGui import * >> >> >> class Server(QWidget): >> def __init__(self, parent=None): >> super(Server, self).__init__(parent) >> >> label = QLabel("Message", self) >> field = QLineEdit(self) >> field.setEnabled(False) >> field.setObjectName('Field') >> >> layout = QVBoxLayout(self) >> layout.addWidget(label) >> layout.addWidget(field) >> >> self.server = QtNetwork.QLocalServer() >> self.server.newConnection.connect(self.handle_connection) >> self.server.listen('myLocalSocket') >> >> def handle_connection(self): >> print "Handling connection" >> conn = self.server.nextPendingConnection() >> conn.readyRead.connect(partial(self.read_connection, conn)) >> >> def read_connection(self, conn): >> print "Reading connection" >> data = conn.readAll() >> >> field = self.findChild(QLineEdit, 'Field') >> field.setText(data) >> >> >> class Client(QLineEdit): >> def __init__(self, parent=None): >> super(Client, self).__init__(parent) >> >> self.returnPressed.connect(lambda: self.send(self.text())) >> >> def send(self, message): >> sock = QtNetwork.QLocalSocket() >> sock.connectToServer('myLocalSocket') >> sock.write('foo\n') >> >> >> if __name__ == '__main__': >> import sys >> >> app = QApplication(sys.argv) >> >> server = Server() >> server.show() >> >> client = Client() >> client.show() >> >> sys.exit(app.exec_()) >> >> >> >> On 22 July 2013 21:32, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Here is a quick example using Qt classes: >>> >>> ### >>> from functools import partial >>> from PySide import QtNetwork >>> >>> def handleConn(): >>> conn = s.nextPendingConnection() >>> conn.readyRead.connect(partial(readConn, conn)) >>> >>> def readConn(conn): >>> data = conn.readAll() >>> print "Read:", data >>> >>> >>> # Make a server >>> server = QtNetwork.QLocalServer() >>> server.newConnection.connect(handleConn) >>> server.listen('myLocalSocket') >>> >>> # Make client >>> sock = QtNetwork.QLocalSocket() >>> sock.connectToServer('myLocalSocket') >>> sock.write('foo\n') >>> ### >>> >>> You create a QLocalServer which uses local named sockets. Then you tell >>> it to listen. It uses the event loop to wait for connections. >>> When a connection from a client comes in, the handleConn() is called. It >>> accepts the connection and then connects it to another slot that will wait >>> for data. This is all using signal/slots. >>> When the client writes data, the slot will be called. >>> >>> If you take this example and work up a test with it, I can help you >>> further from your code. >>> >>> >>> On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Marcus Ottosson wrote: >>> >>> > I came across this thread >>> > >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/python_inside_maya/ycSqonujjJ8/bRPEnQAGE1cJ >>> > >>> > ..but am not that familiar enough with network programming to >>> understand exactly what is going on. My problem seems similar, I want an >>> externally running PyQt application to get sent information from Maya. I'm >>> trying to setup a server within the PyQt app, but can't get around how to >>> make it concurrent. >>> > >>> > Could I get a simplified example of how does could be achieved? >>> > >>> > I made an example app here: http://pastebin.com/caRJX8qD >>> > Whenever the current node changes, I'd like this gui do show me the >>> name of that node via it's set(node) method. >>> > >>> > Any ideas? >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> > To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> > >>> > >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. 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