I have a QMainWindow
that I initialize with a QWidget
. I want that each Time I'll press the button New
In my QMainWiindow
, it will open the QWidget
temporarily (in my case, until mouse button release).
I'm having trouble interacting QMainWindow
with the QWidget
. I tried many options, but it seemed like everything I tried tied the QWidget
to the QMainWindow
screen, and I don't want that.
It will be easier with an example:
TempWidgetMenu.py
is my QMainWindow
class. When I press New
, a QWidget
will appear, it Will color the screen gray-ish, and will color a rectangle from a button press, to the button release (like in windows snipping tool).
I Want that that every time I press on New
, I'll be able to draw a rectangle from every point of the screen, and so it does the first time.
When I press New
for the second time (or afterwards), it will color everything but the main menu screen, and will not respond to the button actions.
I want the widget to be the "parent" of the program in the screen every time I press the button.
TempWidgetMenu.py (main):
import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QMainWindow, QApplication, QAction
from PyQt5.QtGui import QPixmap, QPainter
import TempWidget
class Menu(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
newAct = QAction('New', self)
newAct.triggered.connect(self.new_image_window)
self.toolbar = self.addToolBar('Exit')
self.toolbar.addAction(newAct)
self.opac_rect = TempWidget.TempOpacWidget()
self.image = QPixmap("background.png")
self.setGeometry(100, 100, 500, 300)
self.resize(self.image.width(), self.image.height())
self.show()
def new_image_window(self):
self.opac_rect.start()
def paintEvent(self, event):
painter = QPainter(self)
painter.drawPixmap(self.rect(), self.image)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
mainMenu = Menu()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
TempWidget.py :
import tkinter as tk
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets, QtCore, QtGui
class TempOpacWidget(QtWidgets.QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
root = tk.Tk()
screen_width = root.winfo_screenwidth()
screen_height = root.winfo_screenheight()
self.setGeometry(0, 0, screen_width, screen_height)
self.setWindowTitle(' ')
self.begin = QtCore.QPoint()
self.end = QtCore.QPoint()
self.busy = False
def start(self):
self.busy = True
self.setWindowOpacity(0.3)
self.show()
def paintEvent(self, event):
if self.busy:
brush_color = (128, 128, 255, 100)
opacity = 0.3
else:
brush_color = (0, 0, 0, 0)
opacity = 0
self.setWindowOpacity(opacity)
qp = QtGui.QPainter(self)
qp.setBrush(QtGui.QColor(*brush_color))
qp.drawRect(QtCore.QRectF(self.begin, self.end))
def mousePressEvent(self, event):
self.begin = event.pos()
self.end = self.begin
self.update()
def mouseMoveEvent(self, event):
self.end = event.pos()
self.update()
def mouseReleaseEvent(self, event):
self.busy = False
self.repaint()
I realize I'm initializing the TempOpacWidget
once at the start. I want to initialize it only once, because it is doing the same thing.
How can I fix it, such that the TempOpacWidget
will be the parent every time I call him?
Edit: If something is not clear, run the code it will make perfect sense. Press New
, Choose a rectangle (with mouse), and then press New
again to choose another rectangle, and you will understand what is the problem.