Printing some text in a Label, depending on textbox input - PyQT5

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I need help figuring out how to use the value written in a textbox in PyQT5, and use that value to build an IF statement. Any suggestions on how to do it? I have tried to declare the text in the textbox as a variable and use it in the IF statement but I can't seem to figure it out how to do it properly, and every time i run the code, some exit code shows (-1073741819 (0xC0000005) ).

Summing up, can't use pass the value of the textbox to the variable in order to do an IF statement.

I had this code down below:

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow, QPushButton, QTextEdit


def window():
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    win = QMainWindow()
    win.setGeometry(200, 200, 400, 400)
    win.setWindowTitle("Register Program")

    label = QtWidgets.QLabel(win)
    label.setText("Random Text")
    label.move(169, 15)

    label2 = QtWidgets.QLabel(win)
    label2.resize(300, 100)
    label2.setText("1- Register new person\n2- See all regestries\n3- See last regestry\n\nPress ESC to exit\n")
    label2.move(70, 50)

    textbox = QtWidgets.QLineEdit(win)
    textbox.setText("")
    textbox.resize(250, 25)
    textbox.move(70, 250)

    button1 = QtWidgets.QPushButton(win)
    button1.move(150, 300)
    button1.setText("Submit")
    button1.clicked.connect(clicked)

    button2 = QtWidgets.QPushButton(win)
    button2.move(150, 335)
    button2.setText("Close")
    button2.clicked.connect(close)

    win.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())


def clicked():
    inpt = int(window().textbox.text)
    if inpt == 1:
        print("Hello")


def close():
    sys.exit()


window()```

python
textbox
pyqt5
asked on Stack Overflow Jul 26, 2020 by Hugo Almeida

1 Answer

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If you're just looking to get user input, there's a builtin static method you can call for requesting input of a particular type: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qinputdialog.html#getText

If you want to make your own widget however, you need to use the signals and slots to trigger a python method to store the value. This is easiest to do in a class. You can trigger the method whenever the text changes with the textChanged signal and do whatever you need to do with it.

(Note, I haven't run this as I don't have PyQt5 currently installed, but it should work)

from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets

class Widget(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        # type: (QtWidgets.QWidget) -> None
        super(Widget, self).__init__(parent)

        self.line_edit = QtWidgets.QLineEdit()

        main_layout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
        main_layout.addWidget(self.line_edit)
        self.setLayout(main_layout)

        self.line_edit.textChanged.connect(self.on_text_changed)

    def get_text(self):
        return self.line_edit.text()

    def on_text_changed(self, text):
        print("The text was changed to:", text)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
    widget = Widget()
    widget.show()
    app.exec_()

Edit: Also, to clarify why you're getting an error, QApplication is a singleton. This means there can only ever be one created. If you try to create a second, you'll get an error. The best way to access the current QApplication is to call QApplication.instance(). You also only call app.exec_() once, as once the application is running it will continue to run in the background. You should use signal/slots to interact with the UI and trigger the code you want to run.

answered on Stack Overflow Jul 26, 2020 by MattRickS • edited Jul 26, 2020 by MattRickS

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