[PyQt] Embedding QWidgets within a parent

[Phil Thompson]

On 25/04/2014 1:23 pm, Chris Wood wrote:
> Hmm, I've been through that tutorial several times, and I thought I
> was getting the hang of stuff, but that tutorial doesn't seem to
> mention anywhere anything about how to set parents or children.
> However, it seems it might be easier than I thought it was - I hadn't
> realised that I could do something like:
> 
> class webwidget(QtGui.QWidget):
> 
>   def __init__(self):
>     super(webwidget, self).__init__()
> 
>     self.b = Browser()
>     self.b.load(QUrl('http://www.google.com [7]'))
> 
>     self.grid = QtGui.QGridLayout()
>     self.grid.addWidget(self.b,0,1)
> 
>     self.setLayout(self.grid)
> 
> class Browser(QWebView):
> 
>     def __init__(self):
>         QWebView.__init__(self)
>         self.loadFinished.connect(self._result_available)
> 
>     def _result_available(self, ok):
>         frame = self.page().mainFrame()
> 
> and that Google now does appear in my gui! :) (n.b. is there a better
> way to do it - should I call load() somewhere else?) but, how does the
> comment about children / parents relate to this?

If that is all you are doing then why bother? QWebView is a widget 
itself.

Phil