I am working through the book "Rapid Gui Programming with Python and Qt" and am having a problem on the signals/slots project. I have downloaded the authors code to compare against my own, and it all looks the same, however, when I emit a signal from a derived spin box class, python just crashes. Here is the entire code that I have:
import sys
from PySide.QtCore import *
from PySide.QtGui import *
class ZeroSpinBox(QSpinBox):
zeros = 0
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(ZeroSpinBox, self).__init__(parent)
self.connect(self, SIGNAL("valueChanged(int)"), self.checkzero)
def checkzero(self):
if self.value() == 0:
self.zeros += 1
self.emit(SIGNAL("atzero"), self.zeros)
class Form(QDialog):
def __init__(self, parent= None):
super(Form, self).__init__(parent)
dial = QDial()
dial.setNotchesVisible(True)
spinbox = ZeroSpinBox()
spinbox.setRange(0,200)
dial.setRange(0,200)
layout = QHBoxLayout()
layout.addWidget(dial)
layout.addWidget(spinbox)
self.setLayout(layout)
self.connect(dial, SIGNAL("valueChanged(int)"), spinbox, SLOT("setValue(int)"))
self.connect(spinbox, SIGNAL("valueChanged(int)"), dial, SLOT("setValue(int)"))
self.connect(spinbox, SIGNAL("atzero"), self.announce)
self.setWindowTitle("Signals and Slots Part 2")
def announce(self, zeros):
print "ZeroSpinBox has been at zero %d times" % zeros
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
form = Form()
form.show()
app.exec_()
My problem occurs when the spinbox goes down to zero, the checkzero(self) method (of the ZeroSpinBox class) gets called, the self.zeros += 1 line is ok, then on the emit line windows reports that Python.exe has crashed. The error I get is "python.exe has stopped working" and the console reports "Process finished with exit code -1073741819"
Any idea why this is happening? This is Python 2.7.2 and PyQT4 w/PySide.