Calling UI objects

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#1

Hi,
I am currently writing a ui script for Maya in python.

It goes something like this

def loadUI():
    #loads UI

def getMayaWindow():
    #gets the maya main window

class MainClass():
    def __init__ (self, parent = getMayaWindow()):
    #initialise
        super(MainClass, self).__init__(parent)
        self.setupUi(self)

    #create connections to ui            
    self.QComboBox.addItems([1,2,3,4])
    self.deleteButton.clicked.connect(self.delete)

def delete(self):
    self.deselect = self.QListWidget.selectedItems()
    for j in self.deselect:
        self.QListWidget.takeItem(self.QListWidget.row(j))

so, I have ui that has different tabs at the top and I do not want to put every single piece of code in the MainClass because that would be too messy and long. For every tab, I want to write its script in a different .py file. I want to create the connections under the init function, at the same time, load functions from another script into this MainClass to be used.

Question is, how should I go about calling objectName from the ui in a new file? I tried to import the MainClass code but that didn’t work and I don’t want the initialize the ui window in the new .py file. What’s a good way to go about this?

Thanks

#2

So I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking. But I think you’re hoping to have a window/dialog with a tabbed layout, and you want each tab to be defined in it’s own separate python file?

So this example https://pythonspot.com/en/pyqt5-tabs/ show just how to setup some basic QWidgets in a tabbed layout.

If you replace those widgets with you’re own custom widgets, you should be able to do what you’re looking for.
Unless I’ve misunderstood completely.

#3

Your question is not very clear.

What I understand here is that you want to separate each tab content in a different .py file.

In your MainClass you can create your UI, and then create a TabLayout as @bob.w said.
Then you can import all those UI .py files, calling a function on each of them that receives the tabLayout and add a tab with contents to it.

   import uiTab1
   import uiTab2
   import uiTab3

   CreationFunction():
        //Create Ui stuff...
        //Create a tab layout
        uiTab1.create(tabLayout)
        uiTab2.create(tabLayout)
        .....

Each file would be:

uiTab1.py

 def create(QTabLayout lyt):   
       ///create other UI related to this tab.
       lyt.addWidget()....

Hopefully you meant that. I can fix my answer if it wasn’t what you were asking!