[PySide] a couple of QProgressDialog questions

[Frank Rueter | OHUfx]

oops, ignore that redundant perform()method in there please:
http://pastebin.com/7YRXPGqP

On 9/3/13 6:31 PM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> after almost a year of having to neglect PySide I'm finally making some
> time for it again, only to feel like I almost forgot everything I
> learned :-D
>
> I'm trying to do something fairly common and wanted to sanity check my
> approach, so here is my sandbox script to figure out how to use
> QProgressDialog:
> http://pastebin.com/4kVhPiUx
>
> It all works as expected except for the fact that when I hit cancel, the
> progress stops (as expected), and the second time I hit the cancel
> button the dialog closes. Seems wrong, and I'm sure I should be doing it
> better, so that the progress stops and the dialog closes at the same
> time. This behaviour seems to be the same even if setAutoClose() is set
> to True.
> Should manually close the window when wasCanceled() is true, or set the
> progress' value to it's maximum to let auroClose take over? Or is there
> a better way?
>
> My second question is:
> What is the best approach to connect a QProgressDialog to another thread
> that is running a command line application?
> I'm guessing I should write a wrapper around the external application
> (using QEvent or QProcess?), grabbing it's stdout, parsing it to get the
> actual progress value, then connecting that to the QProgressDialog widget.
> Is that the way to do it?
>
> Ultimately I would like a simple Dialog, that has both a progress bar
> and a text widget, to show the application's stdout as well as the
> overall progress.
>
> Am I on the right track or are there easier/better ways?
>
> Cheers,
> frank
>
>
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