Qt Designer: Invoking Python functions

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Hey guys and gals
So I’m used to handcoding PyQt UIs, but I want to set up an easy system for other users, using Qt Designer.

I’m just wondering how I might execute Python functions with Qt Designer buttons. I do not want to use pyuic to convert the ui file to a PyQt ui.

This is for our own proprietary application, so I don’t think ‘+command’ (how Maya does it) will work.

Qt Designer on my system is a little fubar’d so I’ll try this at home…just wanted to ask while it was fresh on my mind.
Thanks!

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Perhaps this site can help you? seems like they’re using some type of ui-header file to define the functions used within the gui.

Edit: a link to the site would be helpful :slight_smile: PyQT Tutorial

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Nice. I’ll try messing with that.
Much appreciated

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I’ll save you a few weeks or months of figuring things out- don’t use the Qt Designer for production UIs. It is seductively smooth, but in actually crippled (unlike the Visual Studio designer which rocks). It is more work than it’s worth. Designer-friendly UI’s should be straightforward to hand-code when you know what you’re doing, and anything fancier is going to be far too confusing to maintain (or impossible to create) with the Designer.

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[QUOTE=Rob Galanakis;17715]I’ll save you a few weeks or months of figuring things out- don’t use the Qt Designer for production UIs. It is seductively smooth, but in actually crippled (unlike the Visual Studio designer which rocks). It is more work than it’s worth. Designer-friendly UI’s should be straightforward to hand-code when you know what you’re doing, and anything fancier is going to be far too confusing to maintain (or impossible to create) with the Designer.[/QUOTE]

I definitely agree to a point, but this was for ease of use of artists to create quick personal UIs rather than ones for any sort of studio distribution.