Iterate QAction items on a given QToolBar object in PyQt?

Question

Using Python and PyQt4, given a GUI with any number of QToolBar objects and each toolbar contains any number of QAction objects.

I can iterate the ui with the following code and find the toolbars:

for name, obj in inspect.getmembers(ui):
    if isinstance(obj, QToolBar):
        print "toolbar =",name

How can I iterate each toolbar object and find the QAction objects. I will then read the QActions to determine which are "checked". I am not using QActionGroups.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 21 '16 at 00:19

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If the toolbars were created in Qt Designer, they will become children of the main window (or whatever the top-level widget is).

So you can simply do:

for toolbar in mainwindow.findChildren(QToolBar):
    print('toolbar: %s' % toolbar.objectName())
    for action in toolbar.actions():
        if not action.isSeparator():
            print('  action: %s (%s)' % (action.text(), action.isChecked()))

answered Jan 21 '16 at 00:19

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Thanks... I will test both suggestions tomorrow. – panofish Jan 21 '16 at 00:31
Wow! That is perfect. Exactly what I needed and then some. Thanks. – panofish Jan 21 '16 at 14:20

101 · Answer 2 · 2016-01-20T22:39:20.007

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Given a QToolBar you can find all of its QActions by calling its actions method:

Returns the (possibly empty) list of this widget's actions.

For example:

if isinstance(obj, QToolBar):
    print obj.actions()

edited Jan 20 '16 at 22:39

answered Jan 20 '16 at 22:33

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Iterate QAction items on a given QToolBar object in PyQt?

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