> I am now on a more ambitious project. There will be a main app > screen, some > dialogue screens for more info etc and a backend script analysing a > database > which will take some time to run. > > How to fit the GUI around it ? > > If I have my dlg_app.py inhereting frm_app.py all is well until I > need a > poppup dialogue.
Its usually better to make popups inherit directly from TopLevel rather than the parent form. > Would I define another module say dlg_info.py with its frm_info.py Its usually best to put each significant window/dialog in its own form. It makes them easier to reuse in other projects for one thing! > would import and call when needed generating its own QT > object and window. Not sure how QT works so can't comment on that. > app = QApplication(sys.argv) Are you sure there isn't a QDialog base class somewhere in QT? Thats usually been the case in other GUI toolkits I've used. > Secondly my backend will take a while to run & I would like to > display a > status bar in the GUI. The only way i can see to do this is to > either Sounds like a job for a thread... > (2) pass info from the backend via a socket (yep know about them > now!) to a QT > script running in timerEvent() You can do this but threads are less resource greedy. HTH, Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
