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author | Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@qt.io> | 2020-11-02 16:11:52 +0100 |
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committer | Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@qt.io> | 2020-11-02 16:12:04 +0000 |
commit | 25180730194bec25f915f32ab846ea583fb1493f (patch) | |
tree | 9a73e0336ecf21e085d99d6a651c5547b9eb99f8 /sources/pyside6/doc/extras/QtUiTools.loadUiType.rst | |
parent | 6e3e7b9ca0548430aaa5e2555d6e02c64625fa3f (diff) |
Rename PySide2 to PySide6
Adapt CMake files, build scripts, tests and examples.
Task-number: PYSIDE-904
Change-Id: I845f7b006e9ad274fed5444ec4c1f9dbe176ff88
Reviewed-by: Christian Tismer <tismer@stackless.com>
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diff --git a/sources/pyside6/doc/extras/QtUiTools.loadUiType.rst b/sources/pyside6/doc/extras/QtUiTools.loadUiType.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8a8c4bef0 --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/pyside6/doc/extras/QtUiTools.loadUiType.rst @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +.. currentmodule:: PySide6.QtUiTools +.. _loadUiType: + +loadUiType +*********** + +.. py:function:: loadUiType(uifile: str) -> tuple(object, object) + + :param str uifile: The name of the `.ui` file + :return: tuple(object, object) + + This function generates and loads a `.ui` file at runtime, and it returns + a `tuple` containing the reference to the Python class, and the base class. + + We recommend not to use this approach as the workflow should be to generate a Python file + from the `.ui` file, and then import and load it to use it, but we do understand that + there are some corner cases when such functionality is required. + + The internal process relies on `uic` being in the PATH. + The `pyside6-uic` wrapper uses a shipped `uic` that is located in the + `site-packages/PySide6/uic`, so PATH needs to be updated to use that if there + is no `uic` in the system. + + A simple use case is:: + + from PySide6.QtUiTools import loadUiType + + generated_class, base_class = loadUiType("themewidget.ui") + # the values will be: + # (<class '__main__.Ui_ThemeWidgetForm'>, <class 'PySide6.QtWidgets.QWidget'>) + + widget = base_class() + form = generated_class() + form.setupUi(widget) + # form.a_widget_member.a_method_of_member() + widget.show() |