Question

I’m developing a plugin UI for an existing application using PyQt4. The window is created using uic.loadUi() on the press of a button in the main window. The problem is that if I press the button again (while the window is showing) the window is re-created and unsaved changes are lost. I don’t want to make the window modal. Which options do I have to cope with this problem? I guess it would be related to checking whether the QWidget is already showing.

Answer 1

You should initializer a pointer to the QWidget (member variable) to 0.

When the button is pressed, check if the pointer is 0 – if it is, load and show the widget, and assign the pointer variable to point to the new widget. If the pointer is not null when the button is pressed, call widget->raise() and widget->activateWindow().

Disabled buttons can be frustrating to users, as can buttons which appear to do nothing because e.g. their effect is hidden.