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Revan
Revan

Reputation: 2322

Why get's Python with PyQt5 slow when creating a large amount of QPushButtons?

I am building a larger program in PyQt5. I want to create a large number of clickable QPushButtons in a ScrollArea.

As far as I can see it, the program works so far, but gets very slow, when the number of buttons gets high (about 10,000 to 20,000 characters).

How can I ensure that this program builds these buttons responsive? I need to load textfiles separated by chars as QPushButtons which are usually about 15-20 kb large (sometimes up to 50 kb). I believe, this should not be a size limitation.

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QGridLayout, QScrollArea, QPushButton, QVBoxLayout, QWidget

class Widget(QWidget):

    def __init__(self, parent= None):
        super(Widget, self).__init__()
        self.setFixedHeight(200)
        self.setFixedWidth(1000)
        self.setGeometry(50, 100, 600, 500)

        widget = QWidget()
        layout = QVBoxLayout(self)

        grid = QGridLayout()
        gridpos = [0, 0]
        number = 15000
        for i in range(number):
            btn = QPushButton('x')
            btn.setCheckable(True)
            grid.addWidget(btn, *gridpos)
            gridpos[1] += 1
            if gridpos[1] == 10:
                gridpos[0] += 1
                gridpos[1] = 0
        layout.addLayout(grid)
        widget.setLayout(layout)

        scroll = QScrollArea()
        scroll.setWidgetResizable(False)
        scroll.setWidget(widget)

        vLayout = QVBoxLayout(self)
        vLayout.addWidget(scroll)
        self.setLayout(vLayout)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)

    dialog = Widget()
    dialog.show()

    app.exec_()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 915

Answers (1)

Revan
Revan

Reputation: 2322

Apparently, a high amount of qpushbuttons are "expensive" and slow the program down. So, there seems no way to generate 10,000 to 20,000 qpushbuttons at once without delay.

What worked however, was to only show the visible pushbuttons and generate new buttons when they are visible in the window.

Upvotes: 1

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