[PyQt] Animated Progress Bars in QTableView - how?

[Dave Gradwell]

Hello,

Now I'm on PyQt5, setIndexWidget works properly and the (animated) progress bars move in concert with the rest of the scroll-view and table-view.

(The c++ Qt example (the Torrent application) which uses a styledItemDelegate does not animate the progress bars - so I am leaning towards persevering with progress bar widgets shoehorned into cells.)


When I initialise my application, after I have set up a tableView, I call:
""""""""""""""""
    self.tableView.setItemDelegate(progressBarDelegate(self))
""""""""""""""""


progressBarDelegate looks like this:
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class progressBarDelegate(QtWidgets.QItemDelegate):
    def __init__(self, parent=None, *args, **kwargs):
        super(progressBarDelegate, self).__init__(parent=None, *args, **kwargs)
        self.parent = parent

    def paint(self, painter, option, index):
        if index.column() == 1:
     
            thisCellsWidget = self.parent.tableView.indexWidget(index)

            if thisCellsWidget == None:
                thisCellsWidget = QtWidgets.QProgressBar()
                self.parent.tableView.setIndexWidget(index, thisCellsWidget)
              
""""""""""""""""

Having 'installed' the progress bars into the 'cells', I am struggling to see how to subsequently address them (to update their values).
It is tempting to update them in the paint event itself while I already have a handle on them - but this transpired to cause a recursive repaint, with the error message:
QWidget::repaint: Recursive repaint detected
(It's understandable I guess; adjusting its value would of course require a repaint.)

Then I thought that perhaps I could update them directly when data() is called on the model.  I tried to get a handle on them with:
""""""""""""""""
    thisCellsWidget = self.parent.tableView.indexWidget(index)
""""""""""""""""
'parent' is passed to the model when I create it, so the model can access properties of the app, such as the tableView.  I can confirm that the tableView here is the same tableView into which the progress bars were 'set'.

But, for some reason, this always returns me 'None'.

So how can I address these 'indexWidgets'?

Thanks,

Dave.






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On Sat, 31/5/14, David Boddie <david at boddie.org.uk> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [PyQt] Animated Progress Bars in QTableView - how?
 To: pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com
 Date: Saturday, 31 May, 2014, 0:58

 

 Just out of interest, does the example actually animate the
 progress bars?
 

 > This looked great...
 > http://www.bonhardapple.com/shared-with-others/first-glance.png
 > ... however, when I scrolled, the progress bars didn't
 move in concert with
 > the rest of the scroll area.   They
 floated above the cells which scrolled
 > away underneath them.
 > http://www.bonhardapple.com/shared-with-others/scrolled.png

 I'd avoid using cell widgets for this. It should be possible
 with delegates.
 


 
 There is no right way to do this - or official right way, at
 least - because
 I don't think delegates were designed with this use case in
 mind. However, it
 is possible to hack something together using timers. I once
 wrote an example
 (not using progress bars, mind) that shows animated
 delegates. It's on the
 sadly now defunct PyQt Wiki, but archive.org still has a
 copy:
 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20100704185712/http://www.diotavelli.net/PyQtWiki/Animated%20items%20using%20delegates
 
 It's not ideal, but you can at least use it as a starting
 point, perhaps.
 
 Regards,
 
 David