I'm new to Python and I've searched for an answer but couldn't find it (or rather couldn't properly implement it).
I've generated a window with a few buttons in QtDesigner's file named "arch.ui", converted to arch.py.
As I'll be updating GUI occasionally, I don't want to create functions in arch.py, so I've created a main.py file for that.
I've a problem with linking button click to a function => I try to link "btnSource" (from arch.py) to function "printMe" (in main.py).
Obviously it doesn't work. Any help welcome.
Here is generated Designer file:
# Form implementation generated from reading ui file 'arch.ui'
#
# Created by: PyQt5 UI code generator 5.15.0
#
# WARNING: Any manual changes made to this file will be lost when pyuic5 is
# run again. Do not edit this file unless you know what you are doing.
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
class Ui_MainWindow(object):
def setupUi(self, MainWindow):
MainWindow.setObjectName("MainWindow")
MainWindow.resize(460, 233)
self.centralwidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(MainWindow)
self.centralwidget.setObjectName("centralwidget")
self.btnSource = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
self.btnSource.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(80, 60, 75, 23))
self.btnSource.setObjectName("btnSource")
self.lblSource = QtWidgets.QLabel(self.centralwidget)
self.lblSource.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(180, 60, 511, 21))
self.lblSource.setObjectName("lblSource")
self.lblTarget = QtWidgets.QLabel(self.centralwidget)
self.lblTarget.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(180, 120, 481, 16))
self.lblTarget.setObjectName("lblTarget")
self.btnTarget = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
self.btnTarget.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(80, 120, 75, 23))
self.btnTarget.setObjectName("btnTarget")
self.btnGo = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
self.btnGo.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(280, 120, 75, 23))
self.btnGo.setObjectName("btnGo")
MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget)
self.menubar = QtWidgets.QMenuBar(MainWindow)
self.menubar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 460, 21))
self.menubar.setObjectName("menubar")
MainWindow.setMenuBar(self.menubar)
self.statusbar = QtWidgets.QStatusBar(MainWindow)
self.statusbar.setObjectName("statusbar")
MainWindow.setStatusBar(self.statusbar)
self.retranslateUi(MainWindow)
QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(MainWindow)
def retranslateUi(self, MainWindow):
_translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate
MainWindow.setWindowTitle(_translate("MainWindow", "MainWindow"))
self.btnSource.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "Source"))
self.lblSource.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "TextLabel"))
self.lblTarget.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "TextLabel"))
self.btnTarget.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "Target"))
self.btnGo.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "Go"))
And here is my main.py file:
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
from arch import Ui_MainWindow
import sys
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
class myWindow(Ui_MainWindow):
def __init__(self):
super(myWindow, self).__init__()
self.btnSource.clicked.connect(self.btnSource.printMe)#
def printMe(self):
print('blah blah blah')
MainWindow = QtWidgets.QMainWindow()
ui = Ui_MainWindow()
ui.setupUi(MainWindow)
MainWindow.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())