PyQT Signals Problem [Solved]

[maboroshi]

Trying to build a simple GUI in PyQT

I build a QLineEdit Widget and a QButton Widget. I want to reference the entered text in QLineEdit from a function my code as follows

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class MainWindow(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
......

     colorEdit = QtGui.QLineEdit()
......
     self.connect(colorEdit, QtCore.SIGNAL("returnPressed()"), self.newMovie)
......
    def newMovie(self):
          # This is where it goes wrong with attribute errors
          mycolor = self.colorEdit.text()
......

But I keep getting an Attribute error not sure what I am doing wrong suggestions?

AttributeError: 'MainWindow' object has no attribute 'colorEdit'

[ayu]

Now, I'm not very into Python, but I do use QT.

Not really sure this will help, but it's a damage from using too much C++

Try replacing

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mycolor = self.colorEdit.text()

with

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mycolor = colorEdit.text()

Since it would seem as if it looks for the colorEdit attribute in the MainWindow class from the QT library, and not yours.

Keep in mind that I don't know how the Python syntax work, but it's on my list of things I want to do before I die ^^

[maboroshi]

Hey Cats thanks for the fast reply but I had tried that also and still get an attribute error

perhaps maybe when creating my variable if I type self.colorEdit = QtGui.QLineEdit

maybe that might fix it, worth a try *confused

[ayu]

Did it fix it? =)

[leetnigga]

Is the definition of colorEdit in __init__? You'll want to use self there too.

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class MainWindow(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        self.colorEdit = QtGui.QLineEdit()

[maboroshi]

Yep that solved it.

Thanks for the help leet and cats *cheers