Question

i was wondering how to set a phonon player to full screen?
im trying this codes.

    if not self.ui.videoPlayer.isFullScreen():
        self.ui.videoPlayer.enterFullScreen()
    else: 
        self.ui.videoPlayer.exitFullScreen()

but i keep on getting this error message

TypeError: ‘sip.methoddescriptor’ object is not callable

the code above works is from a sample project. the original code was

def full(self):
    if not self.videoWidget.isFullScreen():
        self.videoWidget.enterFullScreen()
    else: 
        self.videoWidget.exitFullScreen()

im recreating it in PyQT and it seems hard for me.
can anyone please guide me on what im missing(having a hunch about it)
or what im doing wrong?

Answer 1

A VideoPlayer is not the same thing as a VideoWidget.

VideoPlayer is a subclass of QWidget, so it will have an isFullScreen method – but it won’t have the methods enterFullScreen and exitFullScreen, which belong to the VideoWidget class.

However, the VideoPlayer class has a videoWidget method which returns the instance of the video widget it uses, so your code example should probably be changed to:

videoWidget = self.ui.videoPlayer.videoWidget()
if videoWidget.isFullScreen():
    videoWidget.exitFullScreen()
else: 
    videoWidget.enterFullScreen()

EDIT

To provide a method for exiting fullscreen mode, set up a keyboard shortcut:

class MainWindow(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self)
        ...
        self.shortcutFull = QtGui.QShortcut(self)
        self.shortcutFull.setKey(QtGui.QKeySequence('F11'))
        self.shortcutFull.setContext(QtCore.Qt.ApplicationShortcut)
        self.shortcutFull.activated.connect(self.handleFullScreen)

    def handleFullScreen(self):
        videoWidget = self.ui.videoPlayer.videoWidget()
        if videoWidget.isFullScreen():
            videoWidget.exitFullScreen()
        else: 
            videoWidget.enterFullScreen()