How to control QProgressBar with Signal

Question

Pushing the button starts 100 rounds cycle. With QLabel.setText() we update self.label from inside of scope of clicked() function.

Aside from updating self.label we would like to update the progressbar as well. But since progressbar is a local variable we can't update it from inside of onClick() function.

import time

class ProgressBar(QtGui.QProgressBar):
    def __init__(self, parent=None, total=20):
        super(ProgressBar, self).__init__(parent=parent)

        self.setMinimum(1)
        self.setMaximum(105)        
        self.setTextVisible(True) 

    def set_to_value(self, value):
        self.setValue(value)
        QtGui.qApp.processEvents()

    def closeEvent(self, event):
        self._active=False


class Dialog(QtGui.QDialog):
    def __init__(self):
        super(QtGui.QDialog,self).__init__()

        layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.setLayout(layout)
        self.label = QtGui.QLabel('idle...')
        layout.addWidget(self.label)

        progressbar = ProgressBar(self)
        layout.addWidget(progressbar) 

        button = QtGui.QPushButton('Process')
        button.clicked.connect(self.onClick)
        layout.addWidget(button) 

    def onClick(self):
        for i in range(101):
            message = '...processing %s of 100'%i
            self.label.setText(message)
            QtGui.qApp.processEvents()
            time.sleep(1)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtGui.QApplication([])
    dialog = Dialog()
    dialog.resize(300, 100)
    dialog.show()
    app.exec_()

Answer 1

Declare the progress bar as:

self.progressbar = ProgressBar(self)

Answer 2

The code declares a local progressbar object connected to a custom 'customSignal` using:

QtCore.QObject.connect(self, QtCore.SIGNAL("customSignal(int)"), progressbar, QtCore.SLOT("setValue(int)"))

with four arguments passed to QtCore.QObject.connect().

The first argument self is the object that will be emitting the signal. Since the function that will do the "sleep-every-second-processing" is declared under the main Dialog instance we pass self here.

The second argument is the name of the signal itself: 'customSignal'.

The progressbar object is used as third and its method setValue as fourth last argument.

class ProgressBar(QtGui.QProgressBar):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(ProgressBar, self).__init__(parent=parent)

class Dialog(QtGui.QDialog):
    def __init__(self):
        super(QtGui.QDialog,self).__init__()
        layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.setLayout(layout)
        self.label = QtGui.QLabel('idle...')
        layout.addWidget(self.label)

        progressbar = ProgressBar(self)
        QtCore.QObject.connect(self, QtCore.SIGNAL("customSignal(int)"), progressbar, QtCore.SLOT("setValue(int)"))

        layout.addWidget(progressbar) 

        button = QtGui.QPushButton('Process')
        button.clicked.connect(self.clicked)
        layout.addWidget(button) 

    def clicked(self):
        for value in range(101):
            message = '...processing %s of 100'%value
            self.label.setText(message)
            self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("customSignal(int)"), value)
            QtGui.qApp.processEvents()
            time.sleep(1)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtGui.QApplication([])
    dialog = Dialog()
    dialog.resize(300, 100)
    dialog.show()
    app.exec_()

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Here is variation of the same solution except linking to the progressbar method. import time

class ProgressBar(QtGui.QProgressBar):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(ProgressBar, self).__init__(parent=parent)

    def set_to_value(self, value):
        self.setValue(value)
        QtGui.qApp.processEvents()
        return True

    def closeEvent(self, event):
        self._active=False

class Dialog(QtGui.QDialog):
    def __init__(self):
        QtGui.QDialog.__init__(self, parent=None)
        layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.setLayout(layout)
        self.label = QtGui.QLabel('idle...')
        layout.addWidget(self.label)

        progressbar = ProgressBar(self)
        QtCore.QObject.connect(self, QtCore.SIGNAL("customSignal(int)"), progressbar.set_to_value )
        layout.addWidget(progressbar) 

        button = QtGui.QPushButton('Process')
        button.clicked.connect(self.clicked)
        layout.addWidget(button) 

    def clicked(self):
        for value in range(101):
            message = '...processing %s of 100'%value
            self.label.setText(message)
            self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("customSignal(int)"), value)
            QtGui.qApp.processEvents()
            time.sleep(1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtGui.QApplication([])
    dialog = Dialog()
    dialog.resize(300, 100)
    dialog.show()
    app.exec_()

======================

This code now links a custom signal to a function referred as Slot in Qt.

from PySide import QtCore, QtGui
import time

class ProgressBar(QtGui.QProgressBar):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(ProgressBar, self).__init__(parent=parent)

    @QtCore.Slot(int)
    def set_to_value(self, value):
        self.setValue(value)
        QtGui.qApp.processEvents()
        return True

    def closeEvent(self, event):
        self._active=False

class Dialog(QtGui.QDialog):
    def __init__(self):
        QtGui.QDialog.__init__(self, parent=None)
        layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.setLayout(layout)
        self.label = QtGui.QLabel('idle...')
        layout.addWidget(self.label)

        progressbar = ProgressBar(self)
        # QtCore.QObject.connect(self, QtCore.SIGNAL("customSignal(int)"), progressbar.set_to_value )
        QtCore.QObject.connect(self, QtCore.SIGNAL("customSignal(int)"), progressbar, QtCore.SLOT("set_to_value(int)"))

        layout.addWidget(progressbar) 

        button = QtGui.QPushButton('Process')
        button.clicked.connect(self.clicked)
        layout.addWidget(button) 

    def clicked(self):
        for value in range(101):
            message = '...processing %s of 100'%value
            self.label.setText(message)
            self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("customSignal(int)"), value)
            QtGui.qApp.processEvents()
            time.sleep(1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    dialog = Dialog()
    dialog.resize(300, 100)
    dialog.show()