Open a dialog from MainWindow - pyQT4 - Beginner :-)

[nickgaens at gmail.com]

On May 4, 7:31 pm, Florian Wollenschein <Florian.Wollensch... at FernUni-
Hagen.de> wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I'm just working on a pyQT4 version of my txt to html converter thc (see
> listick.org for details).
>
> I created the MainWindow with QT Designer and then converted it to .py
> with pyuic4. It works well so far. Then I created a new UI for my
> abtDialog (about dialog for my application). I did the same as with the
> MainWindow, so I have two UIs and two *_ui.py files now. How can I open
> the dialog from my main application class?
>
> Here's part of the code I'm using:
>
> ...
> self.connect(self.actionAbout,
>                  QtCore.SIGNAL("triggered()"), self.OpenAbout)
> ...
>   def OpenAbout(self):
>          pass
> ...
>
> The OpenAbout function should open the dialog. I've already tried a
> abtDialog.show() after creating it via abtDialog = ThcAboutDialog()
> (ThcAboutDialog is the class for this dlg).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Listick Lorchhttp://www.listick.org
>
> PS: Keep in mind that I'm quite a beginner in the field of python and qt...

def OpenAbout(self):
    # don't forget to connect the "Ok"-button of this about-dialog to
QDialog::accept() ;-)
    abtDialog.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose)
    abtDialog.exec_()

R3

ps: you could take a look at a QMessageBox::information or so to make
this more "simple"