[PySide] QtUiTools.QUiLoader crash with custom widget

[Ludo Visser]

On Apr 30, 2012, at 5:16 pm, Tyler W. Wilson wrote:

> Ditto on this issue for me. I just ran into this as well trying to add a 
> custom widget to a designer-based application. I had to move to PyQt4 
> temporarily to make it work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tyler
> 
> On 4/30/2012 9:58 AM, Stefan wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to create a QMainWindow in the Designer and load the ui file
>> dynamically with QUiLoader in pyside 1.1.0. When I don't register any
>> custom types it works, but obviously fails to create my derived class.
>> When I register them it crashes. Here's a small example that crash for
>> me on windows running python 2.7 and pyside 1.1.0:
>> 
>> from PySide import QtCore, QtGui, QtUiTools
>> import sys
>> 
>> class MyWidget(QtGui.QWidget):
>>      def __init__(self, parent=None):
>>          super(MyWidget, self).__init__(parent)
>> 
>> if __name__ == '__main__':
>>      application = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
>> 
>>      loader = QtUiTools.QUiLoader()
>>      loader.registerCustomWidget(MyWidget)
>>      print loader.availableWidgets()
>>      print loader.createWidget('QLabel')
>>      print loader.createWidget('MyWidget')
>> 
>> Running this prints the following:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> So it the class is in there, it manages to create a QLabel, but then it
>> crashes.
>> 
>> Any ideas why? I don't have any pdb for python, so it's hard to get a
>> callstack.
>> 
>> /Stefan

I'm not sure what is causing the crash, but one way to obtain the functionality you require is to subclass the QUiLoader class to handle your custom widgets (see http://www.mail-archive.com/pyside@lists.openbossa.org/msg00878.html). For example something like this (here, a top-level widget is used to wrap around the ui-loaded widget, and this top-level widget has an attribute specifying which custom widgets it wants to load; of course, different approaches are possible):

 def createWidget(self, className, parent = None, name = ""):
    if className in QtUiTools.QUiLoader.availableWidgets(self):
        widget = QtUiTools.QUiLoader.createWidget(self, className, parent, name)
    else:
        if hasattr(self.baseinstance, "customWidgets"):
            if className in self.baseinstance.customWidgets.keys():
                widget = self.baseinstance.customWidgets[className](parent)
            else:
                raise KeyError("Unknown widget '%s'" % className)
        else:
            raise AttributeError("Trying to load custom widget '%s', but base instance '%s' does not specify custom widgets." % (className, repr(self.baseinstance)))
    
    if self.baseinstance is not None:
        setattr(self.baseinstance, name, widget)
    
    return widget



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