Qt Tutorial - Chapter 7: One Thing Leads to Another. This example shows how to create custom widgets with signals and slots, and how to connect them together in more complex ways. For the first time, the source is split among several files which we've placed in the t7 subdirectory. T7/lcdrange.h contains the LCDRange class definition. How Qt Signals and Slots Work - Part 2 - Qt5 New Syntax. The first one is the one that is much closer to the old syntax: you connect a signal from the sender to a slot in a receiver object. The two other overloads are connecting a signal to a static function or a functor object without a receiver. If you want to get signals, you must connect these to slots. But if you want to get one of these, enougt to connect one. I connected everyone just create example. Slots are functions must be defined as “slot ” like this.
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Unlike a console mode application, which is executed in a sequential manner, a GUI based application is event driven. Functions or methods are executed in response to user’s actions like clicking on a button, selecting an item from a collection or a mouse click etc., called events.
Widgets used to build the GUI interface act as the source of such events. Each PyQt widget, which is derived from QObject class, is designed to emit ‘signal’ in response to one or more events. The signal on its own does not perform any action. Instead, it is ‘connected’ to a ‘slot’. The slot can be any callable Python function.
In PyQt, connection between a signal and a slot can be achieved in different ways. Following are most commonly used techniques −
A more convenient way to call a slot_function, when a signal is emitted by a widget is as follows −
Suppose if a function is to be called when a button is clicked. Here, the clicked signal is to be connected to a callable function. It can be achieved in any of the following two techniques −
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Example
In the following example, two QPushButton objects (b1 and b2) are added in QDialog window. We want to call functions b1_clicked() and b2_clicked() on clicking b1 and b2 respectively.
When b1 is clicked, the clicked() signal is connected to b1_clicked() function
When b2 is clicked, the clicked() signal is connected to b2_clicked() function
Example
The above code produces the following output −