I want to emit a signal from a QGraphicsItem
when it is doubled-clicked, in order to change a widget in the main window. The graphics-scene/-item does not provide an emit()
method, but I was just wondering if there is an alternate way to do this. The code below has a function within a QGraphicsView
class that will print to the terminal when an item is double-clicked. How can I make that into a slot/signal instead (if QGraphicsItem
does not support signal/slots)?
import sys
from PySide.QtCore import *
from PySide.QtGui import *
class MyFrame(QGraphicsView):
def __init__( self, parent = None ):
super(MyFrame, self).__init__(parent)
scene = QGraphicsScene()
self.setScene(scene)
self.setFixedSize(500, 500)
pen = QPen(QColor(Qt.green))
brush = QBrush(pen.color().darker(150))
item = scene.addEllipse(0, 0, 45, 45, pen, brush)
item.setPos(0,0)
def mouseDoubleClickEvent(self, event):
print("Circle Clicked!")
# this double click event prints to terminal but how to setup
# signal/slot to update the QWidget QLabel text instead?
class Example(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super(Example, self).__init__()
self.initUI()
def initUI(self):
hbox = QHBoxLayout(self)
top = QLabel("Double Click Green Circle (Howto change this QWidget Label with signals?)")
bottom = MyFrame()
splitter = QSplitter(Qt.Vertical)
splitter.addWidget(top)
splitter.addWidget(bottom)
hbox.addWidget(splitter)
self.setLayout(hbox)
self.setGeometry(0, 0, 500, 600)
self.show()
def main():
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
ex = Example()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Below is a simple example showing one way to emit signals from a graphics-item. This defines a custom signal on a subclass of QGraphicsScene
and then uses the scene()
method of graphics-items to emit it:
import sys
from PySide import QtCore, QtGui
class GraphicsScene(QtGui.QGraphicsScene):
itemDoubleClicked = QtCore.Signal(object)
class GraphicsRectangle(QtGui.QGraphicsRectItem):
def mouseDoubleClickEvent(self, event):
self.scene().itemDoubleClicked.emit(self)
class Window(QtGui.QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super(Window, self).__init__()
self.view = QtGui.QGraphicsView()
self.scene = GraphicsScene(self)
self.view.setScene(self.scene)
layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self)
layout.addWidget(self.view)
for i in range(1, 4):
self.scene.addItem(GraphicsRectangle(50 * i, 50 * i, 20, 20))
self.scene.itemDoubleClicked.connect(self.handleItemDoubleClicked)
def handleItemDoubleClicked(self, item):
print(item.boundingRect())
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
window = Window()
window.setGeometry(600, 100, 300, 200)
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
UPDATE:
Below is a an example based on the code in your question. The basic idea is the same: define a custom signal on an available QObject
(the graphics-view in this case), and use that to emit the double-click notification.
import sys
from PySide.QtCore import *
from PySide.QtGui import *
class MyFrame(QGraphicsView):
itemDoubleClicked = Signal(object)
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(MyFrame, self).__init__(parent)
scene = QGraphicsScene()
self.setScene(scene)
self.setFixedSize(500, 500)
for i, color in enumerate('red blue green'.split()):
pen = QPen(QColor(color))
brush = QBrush(pen.color().darker(150))
item = scene.addEllipse(i * 50, i * 50, 45, 45, pen, brush)
item.setData(0, color.upper())
def mouseDoubleClickEvent(self, event):
item = self.itemAt(event.pos())
if item is not None:
self.itemDoubleClicked.emit(item)
class Example(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super(Example, self).__init__()
self.initUI()
def initUI(self):
hbox = QHBoxLayout(self)
top = QLabel('Double Click a Circle')
bottom = MyFrame()
bottom.itemDoubleClicked.connect(
lambda item, top=top:
top.setText('Double Clicked: %s' % item.data(0)))
splitter = QSplitter(Qt.Vertical)
splitter.addWidget(top)
splitter.addWidget(bottom)
hbox.addWidget(splitter)
self.setLayout(hbox)
self.setGeometry(0, 0, 500, 600)
self.show()
def main():
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
ex = Example()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()