Restoring QCheckBox with Qsettings

Question

Having QCheckBox wants to save and restore checkstate after closing file.

Tried following but it does not really work!

The code:

import sys
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets

class SecondOrder(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(SecondOrder, self).__init__(parent)
        self.setFont(QtGui.QFont("Helvetica", 8, QtGui.QFont.Normal, italic=False))

        curvaturelabel = QtWidgets.QLabel('Nominal curvature')
        stiffnesslabel = QtWidgets.QLabel('Nominal stiffness')
        simcurvaturelabel = QtWidgets.QLabel('Simplified nominal curvature')   

        self.curvaturecheck = QtWidgets.QCheckBox()
        self.stiffnesscheck = QtWidgets.QCheckBox()
        self.simcurvaturecheck = QtWidgets.QCheckBox()

        self.clay = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
        self.clay.addWidget(curvaturelabel)
        self.clay.addWidget(stiffnesslabel)
        self.clay.addWidget(simcurvaturelabel)

        self.dlay = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
        self.dlay.addWidget(self.curvaturecheck)
        self.dlay.addWidget(self.stiffnesscheck)
        self.dlay.addWidget(self.simcurvaturecheck)

        grid = QtWidgets.QGridLayout(self)
        grid.addLayout(self.dlay, 0, 0)
        grid.addLayout(self.clay, 0, 1)

        Secondorder_Group = QtWidgets.QGroupBox(self)
        Secondorder_Group.setTitle("&Second order analysis method")
        Secondorder_Group.setLayout(grid)

        self.elay = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout(self)
        self.elay.addWidget(Secondorder_Group)     
        self.elay.setSizeConstraint(self.elay.SetFixedSize)

        group = QtWidgets.QButtonGroup(self) 
        group.addButton(self.curvaturecheck) 
        group.addButton(self.stiffnesscheck) 
        group.addButton(self.simcurvaturecheck)

        self.readSettings()

        self.curvaturecheck.stateChanged.connect(lambda: self.writeSettings())
        self.stiffnesscheck.stateChanged.connect(lambda: self.writeSettings())
        self.simcurvaturecheck.stateChanged.connect(lambda: self.writeSettings())

    def readSettings(self):
        settings = QtCore.QSettings('file.ini')
        settings.beginGroup("QCheckBox")
        self.curvaturecheck.setCheckState(settings.value("A", QtCore.Qt.Checked, bool))
        self.stiffnesscheck.setCheckState(settings.value("B", False, bool))
        self.simcurvaturecheck.setCheckState(settings.value("C", False, bool))
        settings.endGroup()

    def writeSettings(self):
        settings = QtCore.QSettings('file.ini')
        settings.beginGroup("QCheckBox")
        settings.setValue("A", self.curvaturecheck.isCheckable())
        settings.setValue("B", self.stiffnesscheck.isCheckable())
        settings.setValue("C", self.simcurvaturecheck.isCheckable())
        settings.endGroup()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = SecondOrder()
    w.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

Note that following codes are tried, it really saves and restores but it mix multiple checks? wants to be able to check once and restore.

    settings.setValue("A", self.curvaturecheck.isChecked())
    settings.setValue("B", self.stiffnesscheck.isChecked())
    settings.setValue("C", self.simcurvaturecheck.isChecked())

eyllanesc · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-17T20:10:43.023

If you are going to save a type T data then you must use the function that uses type T, in your case you save a boolean with isChecked() and you want to use the function setCheckState() that uses a Qt::CheckState type causing the error.

Considering the above there are 2 solutions:

Use bool:

def readSettings(self):
    settings = QtCore.QSettings("file.ini")
    settings.beginGroup("QCheckBox")
    self.curvaturecheck.setChecked(settings.value("A", True, bool))
    self.stiffnesscheck.setChecked(settings.value("B", False, bool))
    self.simcurvaturecheck.setChecked(settings.value("C", False, bool))
    settings.endGroup()

def writeSettings(self):
    settings = QtCore.QSettings("file.ini")
    settings.beginGroup("QCheckBox")
    settings.setValue("A", self.curvaturecheck.isChecked())
    settings.setValue("B", self.stiffnesscheck.isChecked())
    settings.setValue("C", self.simcurvaturecheck.isChecked())
    settings.endGroup()

Use Qt::CheckState

def readSettings(self):
    settings = QtCore.QSettings("file.ini")
    settings.beginGroup("QCheckBox")
    self.curvaturecheck.setCheckState(
        settings.value("A", QtCore.Qt.Checked, QtCore.Qt.CheckState)
    )
    self.stiffnesscheck.setCheckState(
        settings.value("B", QtCore.Qt.Unchecked, QtCore.Qt.CheckState)
    )
    self.simcurvaturecheck.setCheckState(
        settings.value("C", QtCore.Qt.Unchecked, QtCore.Qt.CheckState)
    )
    settings.endGroup()

def writeSettings(self):
    settings = QtCore.QSettings("file.ini")
    settings.beginGroup("QCheckBox")
    settings.setValue("A", self.curvaturecheck.checkState())
    settings.setValue("B", self.stiffnesscheck.checkState())
    settings.setValue("C", self.simcurvaturecheck.checkState())
    settings.endGroup()

It is recommended that you delete the .ini file located in settings.fileName().

On the other hand it is not necessary to use lambda functions, change your code to:

self.curvaturecheck.stateChanged.connect(self.writeSettings)
self.stiffnesscheck.stateChanged.connect(self.writeSettings)
self.simcurvaturecheck.stateChanged.connect(self.writeSettings)

Thanks very much, like your double solutions, both work well :) — Pavel.D, Nov 17 '19 at 20:37

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 17 '19 at 21:53

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qbuttongroup.html#details

QButtonGroup provides an abstract container into which button widgets can be placed.. It does not provide a visual representation of this container (see QGroupBox for a container widget), but instead manages the states of each of the buttons in the group.

setValue() on every checkbox can switch another.

But the real issue is isCheckable() (means can be checked or not). Probably you want to use isChecked() (value set to true).

EDIT. And you can try to set state by setChecked().

Or if you want to support partially checked use setCheckState() (as you used) with checkState() to get info.

Restoring QCheckBox with Qsettings

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