pyqt timer does not return a value or an error

Question

I am trying to use a timer with pyqt. The code is below, but it does not print anything and I do not get an error. Does anyone know what is wrong?
Thanks

import functools
from PyQt4.QtCore import QTimer

def onTimer(initParams):
    print initParams
    print "HERE"
    # your code here...
def update():
    print "Upd"
myInitParams = "Init!"
timerCallback = functools.partial(onTimer, myInitParams)
myTimer = QTimer()
myTimer.timeout.connect(timerCallback)
myTimer.start(1000) #once a sec

t = QTimer()

t.start(500)
t.timeout.connect(update)

EDIT UPDATE:

So this is a snip of the full code im using, which is a bit more complicated and maybe is a different problem, but the result is the same.

The structure is like this:

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
# Import the UI Classes from the ui directory in this package
from ui.MoAnGUI import Ui_MoAnWindow

class MoAnWin(QtGui.QDialog, Ui_MoAnWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(MoAnWin, self).__init__(parent=parent)

        self.setupUi(self)
        self.playMarkers.clicked.connect(self._PlayMarkers)
        self.connect(self,QtCore.SIGNAL("PlayMarker"),PlayMarkerCall)
        #Marker Stop
        self.stopMarkers.clicked.connect(self._StopMarkers)
        self.connect(self,QtCore.SIGNAL("StopMarker"),StopMarkerCall)

    def _StopMarkers(self):
        arg = "Stop"
        self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("StopMarker"),arg)
    def _PlayMarkers(self):
        fps = self.fpsBox.value()
        starttime = self.fromTime.value()
        endtime = self.ToTime.value()
        arg = [fps,starttime,endtime]
        self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("PlayMarker"),arg)

def StopMarkerCall(arg):
    #I want to stop the timer here

def PlayMarkerCall(arg):

    #I tried this, but again, nothing happens, no error
    myInitParams = "Init!"
    timerCallback = functools.partial(TimerCall, myInitParams)
    myTimer = QtCore.QTimer()
    myTimer.timeout.connect(timerCallback)
    myTimer.start(1000) #once a sec

    #I Imagine something like this:
    myTimer = QtCore.QTimer()
    for i in range(start,end):
         # I want to connect to my view marker function but i need to pass a variable
         myTimer.timeout.connect(ViewMarkerCall(i))
         myTimer.start(1000)
def TimerCall(args):
    print "HERE", args

def show():
    global globalMoAnWindow
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    globalMoAnWindow = MoAnWin()
    globalMoAnWindow.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())
    return globalMoAnWindow

show()

My goal is to have a button click play, and stuff happens in a qtgraphic widget at a certain time interval, then the stop button stops the playing. I found the functools from another question on here, but im not sure if its the correct thing to do.

mata · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-14T15:08:48.803

To correctly use Qt, you need to set up a QtGui.QApplication or QtCore.QCoreApplication and use it's event loop to process events.

This should work:

#from utils import sigint

import functools
from PyQt4.QtCore import QTimer, QCoreApplication
app = QCoreApplication([])

def onTimer(initParams):
    print initParams
    print "HERE"
    # your code here...
def update():
    print "Upd"
myInitParams = "Init!"
timerCallback = functools.partial(onTimer, myInitParams)
myTimer = QTimer()
myTimer.timeout.connect(timerCallback)
myTimer.start(1000) #once a sec

t = QTimer()

t.start(500)
t.timeout.connect(update)

# use a timer to stop the event loop after some time
stopTimer = QTimer(timeout=app.quit, singleShot=True)
stopTimer.start(4000)

app.exec_()

Edit:

In your updated version you don't keep any reference to your timer object you create in the PlayMarkerCall method. When myTimer goes out of scope, it is destroyed (together with the underlying C++ Qt object), that's why your timer never fires.
And you can't pass parameters when you connect a signal to a slots, at that time you only set up the connection. Parameters can only be passed when the signal is emitted, to do that you could create a class derived from QTimer and override it's timerEvent method to emit a signal with arguments specified when instantiating the Timer.

I was trying to make the question simple, and didnt realize taking it out of the app broke it. I updated my question to get at the problem in implementation. could you help with that? — user-2147482637, May 14 '13 at 13:01
thank you, defining myTimer in the global scope made it do something. Ill probably need to ask some questions later but this helped me alot for now! — user-2147482637, May 15 '13 at 08:26

pyqt timer does not return a value or an error

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