Dialog creation

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På denna sida kommer vi att visa hur man bygger en simpel Qt Dialog med Qt Designer, Qt's officiella verktyg för att designa gränssnitt, och sedan konvertera den till pythonkod, och sedan använda den inuti FreeCAD. Jag antar i exemplet att du redan vet hur du ska redigera och köra python skript, och att du kan göra enkla saker i ett terminalfönster som att navigera, etc. Du måste förstås också ha pyqt installerat.

Designa dialogen

Att i CAD applikationer designa ett bra användargränssnitt är mycket viktigt. Nästan allt som användaren kommer att göra kommer att vara genom någon typ av gränssnitt: läsa dialogrutor, klicka på knappar, välja mellan ikoner, etc. Så det är mycket viktigt att noga tänka igenom vad du vill göra, hur du vill att användaren ska bete sig, och hur arbetsflödet i din aktion kommer att se ut.

Det finns några koncept man bör känna till när man designar ett gränssnitt:

  • Modal/non-modal dialogs: En modal dialog kommer fram längst fram på skärmen, stoppar aktionen i huvudfönstret, och tvingar användare att svara på dialogen, emedan en icke-modal dialog inte stoppar dig från att arbeta med huvudfönstret. I en del fall så är det första bättre, i andra fall inte.
  • Identifiera vad som krävs och vad som är valbart: Försäkra dig om att användaren vet vad den måste göra. Etikettera allting med en riktig beskrivning, använd verktygstips, etc.
  • Separera kommandon från parametrar: Detta görs vanligtvis med knappar och textinmatningsfält. Användaren vet att om en knapp klickas så produceras en aktion emedan ändring av ett värde inuti ett textfält kommer att ändra en parameter någonstans. Nuförtidan så vet de flesta användarna vad en kanpp är, vad ett inmatningsfält är, etc. Det gränssnitts verktygskit vi använder, Qt, är en av de bästa verktygskiten, och vi behöver inte bry oss om så mycket om hur man klargör saker, eftersom de redan är mycket tydliga.

Så, nu när vi har definierat vad vi ska göra, så är det dags att öppna qt designer. Låt oss designa en mycket enkel dialog, som den här:

Vi kommer sedan använda denna dialog i FreeCAD till att producera ett fint rektangulärt plan. Du kanske tycker att det inte är så användbart att producera fina rektangulära plan, men det kommer vara lätt att senare ändra den till att göra mer komplexa saker. När du öppnar det, så ser Qt Designer ut så här:

Det är mycket enkelt att använda. I den vänstra lådan har du element som kan dras till din widget. på den högra sidan har du egenskapspanelerna som visar alla möjliga redigerbara egenskaper på de valda elementen. Så, börja med att skapa en ny widget. Välj "Dialog without buttons", eftersom vi inte vill ha standard Ok/Cancel knappar. Dra sedan3 labels, på din widget, en för titeln, en för att skriva "Höjd" och en för att skriva "Bredd". Labels är enkla texter som syns på din widget, bara för att informera användaren. Om du väljer en label, så kommer det fram flera egenskaper på den högra sidan som du kan ändra om du vill, som teckensnitt, höjd, etc.

Lägg sedan till 2 LineEdits, vilket är textfält som användaren kan fylla i, en för höjden och en för bredden. Här kan vi också redigera egenskaper. Till exempel, varför inte ställa in ett standardvärde? Till exempel 1.00 för varje. På detta sätt, när användaren ser dialogen, så kommer båda värdena redan vara ifyllda och om användaren är nöjd så kan den klicka på knappen direkt, och spara dyrbar tid. Lägg sedan till en PushButton, vilken är den knapp som användaren kommer att behöva klicka på efter att de 2 fälten är ifyllda.

Notera att jag här valde mycket enkla kontroller, men Qt har många fler alternativ, du kan till exempel använda Spinboxes istället för LineEdits, etc... Ta en titt på vad som finns tillgängligt, du kommer säkert att få andra ideer.

Det är ungefär allt vi behöver göra i Qt Designer. En sista sak bara, låt oss döpa om alla våra element till lättare namn, så blir det lättare att identifiera dem i våra skript:

Konvertera vår dialog till python

Låt oss nu spara vår widget någonstans. Den kommar att sparas som en .ui fil, som vi smidigt kan omvandla till python skript med pyuic. på windows, så är pyuic programmet hoppackat med pyqt (ska verifieras), på linux behöver du troligen installera den separat från din pakethanterare (på debian-baserade system, så är det en del av pyqt4-dev-tools paketet). För att göra konverteringen, så behöver du öppna ett terminalfönster (eller ett kommandoprompt fönster på windows), navigera till där du sparade din .ui file, och skriva:

pyuic mywidget.ui > mywidget.py

On some systems the program is called pyuic4 instead of pyuic. This will simply convert the .ui file into a python script. If we open the mywidget.py file, its contents are very easy to understand:

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

class Ui_Dialog(object):
    def setupUi(self, Dialog):
        Dialog.setObjectName("Dialog")
        Dialog.resize(187, 178)
        self.title = QtGui.QLabel(Dialog)
        self.title.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(10, 10, 271, 16))
        self.title.setObjectName("title")
        self.label_width = QtGui.QLabel(Dialog)
        ...

        self.retranslateUi(Dialog)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(Dialog)

   def retranslateUi(self, Dialog):
        Dialog.setWindowTitle(QtGui.QApplication.translate("Dialog", "Dialog", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        self.title.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("Dialog", "Plane-O-Matic", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        ...

As you see it has a very simple structure: a class named Ui_Dialog is created, that stores the interface elements of our widget. That class has two methods, one for setting up the widget, and one for translating its contents, that is part of the general Qt mechanism for translating interface elements. The setup method simply creates, one by one, the widgets as we defined them in Qt Designer, and sets their options as we decided earlier. Then, the whole interface gets translated, and finally, the slots get connected (we'll talk about that later).

We can now create a new widget, and use this class to create its interface. We can already see our widget in action, by putting our mywidget.py file in a place where FreeCAD will find it (in the FreeCAD bin directory, or in any of the Mod subdirectories), and, in the FreeCAD python interpreter, issue:

from PyQt4 import QtGui
import mywidget
d = QtGui.QWidget()
d.ui = mywidget.Ui_Dialog()
d.ui.setupUi(d)
d.show()

And our dialog will appear! Note that our python interpreter is still working, we have a non-modal dialog. So, to close it, we can (apart from clicking its close icon, of course) issue:

d.hide()

Making our dialog do something

Now that we can show and hide our dialog, we just need to add one last part: To make it do something! If you play a bit with Qt designer, you'll quickly discover a whole section called "signals and slots". Basically, it works like this: elements on your widgets (in Qt terminology, those elements are themselves widgets) can send signals. Those signals differ according to the widget type. For example, a button can send a signal when it is pressed and when it is released. Those signals can be connected to slots, which can be special functionality of other widgets (for example a dialog has a "close" slot to which you can connect the signal from a close button), or can be custom functions. The PyQt Reference Documentation lists all the qt widgets, what they can do, what signals they can send, etc...

What we will do here, is to create a new function that will create a plane based on height and width, and to connect that function to the pressed signal emitted by our "Create!" button. So, let's begin with importing our FreeCAD modules, by putting the following line at the top of the script, where we already import QtCore and QtGui:

import FreeCAD, Part

Then, let's add a new function to our Ui_Dialog class:

def createPlane(self):
    try:
        # first we check if valid numbers have been entered
        w = float(self.width.text())
        h = float(self.height.text())
    except ValueError:
        print "Error! Width and Height values must be valid numbers!"
    else:
        # create a face from 4 points
        p1 = FreeCAD.Vector(0,0,0)
        p2 = FreeCAD.Vector(w,0,0)
        p3 = FreeCAD.Vector(w,h,0)
        p4 = FreeCAD.Vector(0,h,0)
        pointslist = [p1,p2,p3,p4,p1]
        mywire = Part.makePolygon(pointslist)
        myface = Part.Face(mywire)
        Part.show(myface)
        self.hide()

Then, we need to inform Qt to connect the button to the function, by placing the following line just before QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(Dialog):

QtCore.QObject.connect(self.create,QtCore.SIGNAL("pressed()"),self.createPlane)

This, as you see, connects the pressed() signal of our create object (the "Create!" button), to a slot named createPlane, which we just defined. That's it! Now, as a final touch, we can add a little function to create the dialog, it will be easier to call. Outside the Ui_Dialog class, let's add this code:

class plane():
   def __init__(self):
       self.d = QtGui.QWidget()
       self.ui = Ui_Dialog()
       self.ui.setupUi(self.d)
       self.d.show()

(Python reminder: the __init__ method of a class is automatically executed whenever a new object is created!) Then, from FreeCAD, we only need to do:

import mywidget
myDialog = mywidget.plane()

That's all Folks... Now you can try all kinds of things, like for example inserting your widget in the FreeCAD interface (see the Code snippets page), or making much more advanced custom tools, by using other elements on your widget.

The complete script

This is the complete script, for reference:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Form implementation generated from reading ui file 'mywidget.ui'
#
# Created: Mon Jun  1 19:09:10 2009
#      by: PyQt4 UI code generator 4.4.4
#
# WARNING! All changes made in this file will be lost!

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
import FreeCAD, Part 

class Ui_Dialog(object):
   def setupUi(self, Dialog):
       Dialog.setObjectName("Dialog")
       Dialog.resize(187, 178)
       self.title = QtGui.QLabel(Dialog)
       self.title.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(10, 10, 271, 16))
       self.title.setObjectName("title")
       self.label_width = QtGui.QLabel(Dialog)
       self.label_width.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(10, 50, 57, 16))
       self.label_width.setObjectName("label_width")
       self.label_height = QtGui.QLabel(Dialog)
       self.label_height.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(10, 90, 57, 16))
       self.label_height.setObjectName("label_height")
       self.width = QtGui.QLineEdit(Dialog)
       self.width.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(60, 40, 111, 26))
       self.width.setObjectName("width")
       self.height = QtGui.QLineEdit(Dialog)
       self.height.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(60, 80, 111, 26))
       self.height.setObjectName("height")
       self.create = QtGui.QPushButton(Dialog)
       self.create.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(50, 140, 83, 26))
       self.create.setObjectName("create")

       self.retranslateUi(Dialog)
       QtCore.QObject.connect(self.create,QtCore.SIGNAL("pressed()"),self.createPlane)
       QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(Dialog)

   def retranslateUi(self, Dialog):
       Dialog.setWindowTitle(QtGui.QApplication.translate("Dialog", "Dialog", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
       self.title.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("Dialog", "Plane-O-Matic", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
       self.label_width.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("Dialog", "Width", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
       self.label_height.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("Dialog", "Height", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
       self.create.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("Dialog", "Create!", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))

   def createPlane(self):
       try:
           # first we check if valid numbers have been entered
           w = float(self.width.text())
           h = float(self.height.text())
       except ValueError:
           print "Error! Width and Height values must be valid numbers!"
       else:
           # create a face from 4 points
           p1 = FreeCAD.Vector(0,0,0)
           p2 = FreeCAD.Vector(w,0,0)
           p3 = FreeCAD.Vector(w,h,0)
           p4 = FreeCAD.Vector(0,h,0)
           pointslist = [p1,p2,p3,p4,p1]
           mywire = Part.makePolygon(pointslist)
           myface = Part.Face(mywire)
           Part.show(myface)

class plane():
   def __init__(self):
       self.d = QtGui.QWidget()
       self.ui = Ui_Dialog()
       self.ui.setupUi(self.d)
       self.d.show()

Creation of a dialog with buttons

Method 1

An example of a dialog box complete with its connections.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Create by flachyjoe

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

try:
    _fromUtf8 = QtCore.QString.fromUtf8
except AttributeError:
    def _fromUtf8(s):
        return s

try:
    _encoding = QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8
    def _translate(context, text, disambig):
        return QtGui.QApplication.translate(context, text, disambig, _encoding)
except AttributeError:
    def _translate(context, text, disambig):
        return QtGui.QApplication.translate(context, text, disambig)


class Ui_MainWindow(object):

     def __init__(self, MainWindow):
        self.window = MainWindow

        MainWindow.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("MainWindow"))
        MainWindow.resize(400, 300)
        self.centralWidget = QtGui.QWidget(MainWindow)
        self.centralWidget.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("centralWidget"))

        self.pushButton = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralWidget)
        self.pushButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 170, 93, 28))
        self.pushButton.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("pushButton"))
        self.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.on_pushButton_clicked) #connection pushButton

        self.lineEdit = QtGui.QLineEdit(self.centralWidget)
        self.lineEdit.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 40, 211, 22))
        self.lineEdit.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("lineEdit"))
        self.lineEdit.returnPressed.connect(self.on_lineEdit_clicked) #connection lineEdit

        self.checkBox = QtGui.QCheckBox(self.centralWidget)
        self.checkBox.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 90, 81, 20))
        self.checkBox.setChecked(True)
        self.checkBox.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("checkBoxON"))
        self.checkBox.clicked.connect(self.on_checkBox_clicked) #connection checkBox

        self.radioButton = QtGui.QRadioButton(self.centralWidget)
        self.radioButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 130, 95, 20))
        self.radioButton.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("radioButton"))
        self.radioButton.clicked.connect(self.on_radioButton_clicked) #connection radioButton

        MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralWidget)

        self.menuBar = QtGui.QMenuBar(MainWindow)
        self.menuBar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 400, 26))
        self.menuBar.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("menuBar"))
        MainWindow.setMenuBar(self.menuBar)

        self.mainToolBar = QtGui.QToolBar(MainWindow)
        self.mainToolBar.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("mainToolBar"))
        MainWindow.addToolBar(QtCore.Qt.TopToolBarArea, self.mainToolBar)

        self.statusBar = QtGui.QStatusBar(MainWindow)
        self.statusBar.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("statusBar"))
        MainWindow.setStatusBar(self.statusBar)

        self.retranslateUi(MainWindow)

     def retranslateUi(self, MainWindow):
        MainWindow.setWindowTitle(_translate("MainWindow", "MainWindow", None))
        self.pushButton.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "OK", None))
        self.lineEdit.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "tyty", None))
        self.checkBox.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "CheckBox", None))
        self.radioButton.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "RadioButton", None))

     def on_checkBox_clicked(self):
        if self.checkBox.checkState()==0:
            App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.checkBox.checkState())+"  CheckBox KO\r\n")
        else:     
            App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.checkBox.checkState())+" CheckBox OK\r\n")
#        App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.lineEdit.setText("tititi"))+" LineEdit\r\n") #write text to the lineEdit window !
#        str(self.lineEdit.setText("tititi")) #écrit le texte dans la fenêtre lineEdit
        App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.lineEdit.displayText())+" LineEdit\r\n")

     def on_radioButton_clicked(self):
        if self.radioButton.isChecked():
             App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.radioButton.isChecked())+" Radio OK\r\n")
        else:
             App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.radioButton.isChecked())+"  Radio KO\r\n")

     def on_lineEdit_clicked(self):
#        if self.lineEdit.textChanged():
		    App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.lineEdit.displayText())+" LineEdit Display\r\n")

     def on_pushButton_clicked(self):
        App.Console.PrintMessage("Terminé\r\n")
        self.window.hide()

MainWindow = QtGui.QMainWindow()
ui = Ui_MainWindow(MainWindow)
MainWindow.show()

Here the same window but with an icon on each button.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

try:
    _fromUtf8 = QtCore.QString.fromUtf8
except AttributeError:
    def _fromUtf8(s):
        return s

try:
    _encoding = QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8
    def _translate(context, text, disambig):
        return QtGui.QApplication.translate(context, text, disambig, _encoding)
except AttributeError:
    def _translate(context, text, disambig):
        return QtGui.QApplication.translate(context, text, disambig)


class Ui_MainWindow(object):

     def __init__(self, MainWindow):
        self.window = MainWindow
#        path = FreeCAD.ConfigGet("UserAppData")
        path = FreeCAD.ConfigGet("AppHomePath")

        MainWindow.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("MainWindow"))
        MainWindow.resize(400, 300)
        self.centralWidget = QtGui.QWidget(MainWindow)
        self.centralWidget.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("centralWidget"))

        self.pushButton = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralWidget)
        self.pushButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 170, 93, 28))
        self.pushButton.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("pushButton"))
        self.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.on_pushButton_clicked) #connection pushButton

        self.lineEdit = QtGui.QLineEdit(self.centralWidget)
        self.lineEdit.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 40, 211, 22))
        self.lineEdit.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("lineEdit"))
        self.lineEdit.returnPressed.connect(self.on_lineEdit_clicked) #connection lineEdit

        self.checkBox = QtGui.QCheckBox(self.centralWidget)
        self.checkBox.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 90, 100, 20))
        self.checkBox.setChecked(True)
        self.checkBox.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("checkBoxON"))
        self.checkBox.clicked.connect(self.on_checkBox_clicked) #connection checkBox

        self.radioButton = QtGui.QRadioButton(self.centralWidget)
        self.radioButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 130, 95, 20))
        self.radioButton.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("radioButton"))
        self.radioButton.clicked.connect(self.on_radioButton_clicked) #connection radioButton

        MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralWidget)

        self.menuBar = QtGui.QMenuBar(MainWindow)
        self.menuBar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 400, 26))
        self.menuBar.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("menuBar"))
        MainWindow.setMenuBar(self.menuBar)

        self.mainToolBar = QtGui.QToolBar(MainWindow)
        self.mainToolBar.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("mainToolBar"))
        MainWindow.addToolBar(QtCore.Qt.TopToolBarArea, self.mainToolBar)

        self.statusBar = QtGui.QStatusBar(MainWindow)
        self.statusBar.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("statusBar"))
        MainWindow.setStatusBar(self.statusBar)

        self.retranslateUi(MainWindow)

        # Affiche un icône sur le bouton PushButton
        # self.image_01 = "C:\Program Files\FreeCAD0.13\icone01.png" # adapt the icon name
        self.image_01 = path+"icone01.png" # adapt the name of the icon
        icon01 = QtGui.QIcon() 
        icon01.addPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap(self.image_01),QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
        self.pushButton.setIcon(icon01) 
        self.pushButton.setLayoutDirection(QtCore.Qt.RightToLeft) # This command reverses the direction of the button

        # Affiche un icône sur le bouton RadioButton 
        # self.image_02 = "C:\Program Files\FreeCAD0.13\icone02.png" # adapt the name of the icon
        self.image_02 = path+"icone02.png" # adapter le nom de l'icône
        icon02 = QtGui.QIcon() 
        icon02.addPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap(self.image_02),QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
        self.radioButton.setIcon(icon02) 
        # self.radioButton.setLayoutDirection(QtCore.Qt.RightToLeft) #  This command reverses the direction of the button

        # Affiche un icône sur le bouton CheckBox 
        # self.image_03 = "C:\Program Files\FreeCAD0.13\icone03.png" # the name of the icon
        self.image_03 = path+"icone03.png" # adapter le nom de l'icône
        icon03 = QtGui.QIcon() 
        icon03.addPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap(self.image_03),QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
        self.checkBox.setIcon(icon03) 
        # self.checkBox.setLayoutDirection(QtCore.Qt.RightToLeft) # This command reverses the direction of the button


     def retranslateUi(self, MainWindow):
        MainWindow.setWindowTitle(_translate("MainWindow", "FreeCAD", None))
        self.pushButton.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "OK", None))
        self.lineEdit.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "tyty", None))
        self.checkBox.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "CheckBox", None))
        self.radioButton.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "RadioButton", None))

     def on_checkBox_clicked(self):
        if self.checkBox.checkState()==0:
            App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.checkBox.checkState())+"  CheckBox KO\r\n")
        else:     
            App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.checkBox.checkState())+" CheckBox OK\r\n")
           # App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.lineEdit.setText("tititi"))+" LineEdit\r\n") # write text to the lineEdit window !
           # str(self.lineEdit.setText("tititi")) #écrit le texte dans la fenêtre lineEdit
        App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.lineEdit.displayText())+" LineEdit\r\n")

     def on_radioButton_clicked(self):
        if self.radioButton.isChecked():
             App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.radioButton.isChecked())+" Radio OK\r\n")
        else:
             App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.radioButton.isChecked())+"  Radio KO\r\n")

     def on_lineEdit_clicked(self):
          # if self.lineEdit.textChanged():
          App.Console.PrintMessage(str(self.lineEdit.displayText())+" LineEdit Display\r\n")

     def on_pushButton_clicked(self):
        App.Console.PrintMessage("Terminé\r\n")
        self.window.hide()

MainWindow = QtGui.QMainWindow()
ui = Ui_MainWindow(MainWindow)
MainWindow.show()

Here the code to display the icon on the pushButton, change the name for another button, (radioButton, checkBox) and the path to the icon.

        # Affiche un icône sur le bouton PushButton
        # self.image_01 = "C:\Program Files\FreeCAD0.13\icone01.png" # the name of the icon
        self.image_01 = path+"icone01.png" # the name of the icon
        icon01 = QtGui.QIcon() 
        icon01.addPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap(self.image_01),QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
        self.pushButton.setIcon(icon01) 
        self.pushButton.setLayoutDirection(QtCore.Qt.RightToLeft) # This command reverses the direction of the button

The command UserAppData gives the user path AppHomePath gives the installation path of FreeCAD

#        path = FreeCAD.ConfigGet("UserAppData")
        path = FreeCAD.ConfigGet("AppHomePath")

This command reverses the horizontal button, right to left.

self.pushButton.setLayoutDirection(QtCore.Qt.RightToLeft) # This command reverses the direction of the button

Method 2

Another method to display a window, here by creating a file QtForm.py which contains the header program (module called with import QtForm), and a second module that contains the code window all these accessories, and your code (the calling module).

This method requires two separate files, but allows to shorten your program using the file ' ' QtForm.py ' ' import. Then distribute the two files together, they are inseparable.

The file QtForm.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Create by flachyjoe
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

try:
    _fromUtf8 = QtCore.QString.fromUtf8
except AttributeError:
   def _fromUtf8(s):
      return s

try:
    _encoding = QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8
    def _translate(context, text, disambig):
      return QtGui.QApplication.translate(context, text, disambig, _encoding)
except AttributeError:
   def _translate(context, text, disambig):
      return QtGui.QApplication.translate(context, text, disambig)

class Form(object):
   def __init__(self, title, width, height):
      self.window = QtGui.QMainWindow()
      self.title=title
      self.window.setObjectName(_fromUtf8(title))
      self.window.setWindowTitle(_translate(self.title, self.title, None))
      self.window.resize(width, height)

   def show(self):
      self.createUI()
      self.retranslateUI()
      self.window.show()
   
   def setText(self, control, text):
      control.setText(_translate(self.title, text, None))

The appellant, file that contains the window and your code.

The file my_file.py

The connections are to do, a good exercise.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Create by flachyjoe
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
import QtForm

class myForm(QtForm.Form):
   def createUI(self):
      self.centralWidget = QtGui.QWidget(self.window)
      self.window.setCentralWidget(self.centralWidget)
      
      self.pushButton = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralWidget)
      self.pushButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 170, 93, 28))
      self.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.on_pushButton_clicked)
      
      self.lineEdit = QtGui.QLineEdit(self.centralWidget)
      self.lineEdit.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 40, 211, 22))
      
      self.checkBox = QtGui.QCheckBox(self.centralWidget)
      self.checkBox.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 90, 81, 20))
      self.checkBox.setChecked(True)
      
      self.radioButton = QtGui.QRadioButton(self.centralWidget)
      self.radioButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 130, 95, 20))
   
   def retranslateUI(self):
      self.setText(self.pushButton, "Fermer")
      self.setText(self.lineEdit, "essai de texte")
      self.setText(self.checkBox, "CheckBox")
      self.setText(self.radioButton, "RadioButton")
   
   def on_pushButton_clicked(self):
      self.window.hide()

myWindow=myForm("Fenêtre de test",400,300)
myWindow.show()

Some useful commands

# Here the code to display the icon on the '''pushButton''', 
# change the name to another button, ('''radioButton, checkBox''') as well as the path to the icon,

       # Displays an icon on the button PushButton
       # self.image_01 = "C:\Program Files\FreeCAD0.13\icone01.png" # he name of the icon
       self.image_01 = path+"icone01.png" # the name of the icon
       icon01 = QtGui.QIcon() 
       icon01.addPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap(self.image_01),QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
       self.pushButton.setIcon(icon01) 
       self.pushButton.setLayoutDirection(QtCore.Qt.RightToLeft) # This command reverses the direction of the button


# path = FreeCAD.ConfigGet("UserAppData") # gives the user path
  path = FreeCAD.ConfigGet("AppHomePath") # gives the installation path of FreeCAD

# This command reverses the horizontal button, right to left
self.pushButton.setLayoutDirection(QtCore.Qt.RightToLeft) # This command reverses the horizontal button

# Displays an info button
self.pushButton.setToolTip(_translate("MainWindow", "Quitter la fonction", None)) # Displays an info button

# This function gives a color button
self.pushButton.setStyleSheet("background-color: red") # This function gives a color button

# This function gives a color to the text of the button
self.pushButton.setStyleSheet("color : #ff0000") # This function gives a color to the text of the button

# combinaison des deux, bouton et texte
self.pushButton.setStyleSheet("color : #ff0000; background-color : #0000ff;" ) #  combination of the two, button, and text

# replace the icon in the main window
MainWindow.setWindowIcon(QtGui.QIcon('C:\Program Files\FreeCAD0.13\View-C3P.png'))

# connects a lineEdit on execute
self.lineEdit.returnPressed.connect(self.execute) # connects a lineEdit on "def execute" after validation on enter
# self.lineEdit.textChanged.connect(self.execute) # connects a lineEdit on "def execute" with each keystroke on the keyboard

# display text in a lineEdit
self.lineEdit.setText(str(val_X)) # Displays the value in the lineEdit (convert to string)

# extract the string contained in a lineEdit
 val_X = self.lineEdit.text() # extract the (string) string contained in lineEdit
 val_X = float(val_X0)        # converted the string to an floating
 val_X = int(val_X0)          # convert the string to an integer

# This code allows you to change the font and its attributes
       font = QtGui.QFont()
       font.setFamily("Times New Roman")
       font.setPointSize(10)
       font.setWeight(10)
       font.setBold(True) # same result with tags "<b>your text</b>" (in quotes)
       self.label_6.setFont(font)
       self.label_6.setObjectName("label_6")
       self.label_6.setStyleSheet("color : #ff0000") # This function gives a color to the text
       self.label_6.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "Select a view", None))

By using the characters with accents, where you get the error :

Several solutions are possible.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-2: invalid data

# conversion from a lineEdit
App.activeDocument().CopyRight.Text = str(unicode(self.lineEdit_20.text() , 'ISO-8859-1').encode('UTF-8'))
DESIGNED_BY = unicode(self.lineEdit_01.text(), 'ISO-8859-1').encode('UTF-8')

or with the procedure

def utf8(unio):
    return unicode(unio).encode('UTF8')

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

# conversion
a = u"Nom de l'élément : "
f.write('''a.encode('iso-8859-1')'''+str(element_)+"\n")

or with the procedure

def iso8859(encoder):
    return unicode(encoder).encode('iso-8859-1')

or

iso8859(unichr(176))

or

unichr(ord(176))

or

uniteSs = "mm"+iso8859(unichr(178))
print unicode(uniteSs, 'iso8859')


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