Help with autoconnect

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03 May 2021 23:37 #207769 by persei8
I'm sick of editing the signal/slot connections that get broken every time I move a widget. Apparently, QT can auto-connect widget signals to handler slots. What I have is:
from PyQt5 import QtCore
from qtvcp.qt_makegui import VCPWindow
WIDGETS = VCPWindow()
Then down in the initialized__(self) module:
QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(WIDGETS)
I have tried self, self.w and WIDGETS. Using the latter 2 does not create errors but no connections are made either.
The slots look like this:
    @QtCore.pyqtSlot()
    def on_object_name_clicked():
        etc.
All slots that I'm trying to autoconnect have been deleted from the designer signal/slot editor.
Any advice on what I'm doing wrong?
Jim

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04 May 2021 15:23 #207838 by cmorley
Replied by cmorley on topic Help with autoconnect
self (the HandlerClasss) is not a subclass of QObject so connecting by 'slotname' won't work.
self.w is a subclass of QObject but doesn't have the handler functions in it in a way that 'slotname' can find it it seems.
I don't quite understand how designer connects to the handler file functions at the moment.
from qtvcp.qt_makegui import VCPWindow
WIDGETS = VCPWindow()

Don't use this in the handler file- it's exactly the same as self.w

Chris

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04 May 2021 23:25 #207900 by persei8
Replied by persei8 on topic Help with autoconnect
OK thanks. I find it just as easy to create a new class in another module that explicitly makes all the connections. It works good and makes it way easier to manage especially when doing extensive changes to the designer file. I may integrate it with the handler later.
Jim

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