Question

I’d like a MessageBox to display when I click a button on my simple PyQT application. How can I declare two textboxes and have a MessageBox display with the text from both textboxes?

Here’s my code far:

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore

class myWindow(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)

        #The setGeometry method is used to position the control.
        #Order: X, Y position - Width, Height of control.
        self.setGeometry(300, 300, 500, 350)
        self.setWindowTitle("Sergio's QT Application.")
        self.setWindowIcon(QtGui.QIcon('menuScreenFolderShadow.png'))

        self.setToolTip('<i>Welcome</i> to the <b>first</b> app ever!')
        QtGui.QToolTip.setFont(QtGui.QFont('Helvetica', 12))

        txtFirstName = QtGui.?
        txtLastName = QtGui.?

        btnQuit = QtGui.QPushButton('Exit Application', self)
        btnQuit.setGeometry(340, 300, 150, 35)

        self.connect(btnQuit, QtCore.SIGNAL('clicked()'),
                    QtGui.qApp, QtCore.SLOT('quit()'))

app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
mainForm = myWindow()
mainForm.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

Answer 1

Since such simple code is a common request, I decided to hack something basic together, here you go:

from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *


class AppForm(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent)
        self.create_main_frame()       

    def create_main_frame(self):        
        page = QWidget()        

        self.button = QPushButton('joy', page)
        self.edit1 = QLineEdit()
        self.edit2 = QLineEdit()

        vbox1 = QVBoxLayout()
        vbox1.addWidget(self.edit1)
        vbox1.addWidget(self.edit2)
        vbox1.addWidget(self.button)
        page.setLayout(vbox1)
        self.setCentralWidget(page)

        self.connect(self.button, SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.clicked)

    def clicked(self):
        QMessageBox.about(self, "My message box", "Text1 = %s, Text2 = %s" % (
            self.edit1.text(), self.edit2.text()))



if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    form = AppForm()
    form.show()
    app.exec_()

Write something into the line edits (text boxes), click the button. Profit! 🙂

Note: it can be done with less code, but this is a good PyQt coding practice – create a widget to serve as a central widget of a window, populate it with a layout, etc.