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Tom Myddeltyn
Tom Myddeltyn

Reputation: 1375

Can a QtCore Signal be set to the current class?

I am attempting to use a QtCore.Signal to send a new instance of a class to the object's parent. What I am attempting to do is as follows, but fails with:

NameError: name 'myClass' is not defined

class myClass(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    mySignal = QtCore.Signal(myClass)
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(myClass, self).__init__(parent)

    def create_new_self(self):
        newSelf = myClass(self.parent())
        self.mySignal.emit(newSelf)

class myParentClass(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(myParentClass, self).__init__(parent)
        myNewClass = myClass(self)
        myNewClass.mySignal.connect(self.handle_my_signal)

    @QtCore.Slot(myClass)
    def handle_my_signal(self, newMyClass):
        newMyClass.mySignal.connect(self.handle_my_signal)
        self.listOfClasses.append(newMyClass)

By Changing the line:

mySignal = QtCore.Signal(myClass)

to

mySignal = QtCore.Signal(QtGui.QMainWindow)

seems to fix the error, but I am not sure if that is the correct way to do something like this, other than it probably isn't the best way to do what I am doing.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 148

Answers (1)

three_pineapples
three_pineapples

Reputation: 11849

The typical way to do this would be to define the signal as

mySignal = QtCore.Signal(object)

since you wish to emit an instance of a class.

EDIT: If you wish to work around the circular dependency, you can place your signal in a wrapper class. E.g.

class myClass(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(myClass, self).__init__(parent)
        # Note: argument of "self" is to parent the object
        self.signalwrapper = MyWrapper(self)

    def create_new_self(self):
        newSelf = myClass(self.parent())
        self.signalwrapper.mySignal.emit(newSelf)

class MyWrapper(QtCore.QObject):
    mySignal = QtCore.Signal(myClass)

Upvotes: 2

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