How to add a widget to a QtWindow after it has been created

[LavaCreeperKing]

I think I asked this before, but I was unable to get an answer. I need to know how I can add widgets to my window after it has been created.

rom PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
import sys, random

class window(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
    def setup(self):
        self.resize(300,300)
        self.setMaximumSize(300, 300)
        self.setMinimumSize(300, 300)

        self.button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self)
        self.button.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(50, 80, 121, 41))
        self.button.clicked.connectself.addB)

    def addB(self):
        y = random.randint(2, 200)
        b = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self)
        b.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(50, y, 121, 41))

The code here will create the first button when I call window.setup() and I see it when I call window.show() to make the window show, but I can't figure out how to add objects to the window after that. What I would like to do is create buttons, and add them to a list. That way I can save them, and load them again when I restart the program.

[Man_from_India]

I think I asked this before, but I was unable to get an answer. I need to know how I can add widgets to my window after it has been created.

rom PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets import sys, random class window(QtWidgets.QMainWindow): def setup(self): self.resize(300,300) self.setMaximumSize(300, 300) self.setMinimumSize(300, 300) self.button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self) self.button.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(50, 80, 121, 41)) self.button.clicked.connectself.addB) def addB(self): y = random.randint(2, 200) b = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self) b.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(50, y, 121, 41))

The code here will create the first button when I call window.setup() and I see it when I call window.show() to make the window show, but I can't figure out how to add objects to the window after that. What I would like to do is create buttons, and add them to a list. That way I can save them, and load them again when I restart the program.

I am just guessing. Will it be fine if you use something like this:

button.show()

[LavaCreeperKing]

Wow, that worked. I can't believe that worked. All this time all I needed to do was call button.show(). Thank you, I can't believe I never thought of that.

[Denni]

In order to create the button on the fly and retain a copy of it you will have to attach it to something or it will simply get trashed (literally). Also while creating this button you need to retain a handle to the object so that you can reference the entire object as needed not something you usually do on the fly but still doable. So in your code

self.button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self)

self.button is a reference to your QPushButton that you created and "self" means you have attached it to "window"
However here you do not attach the button to anything

b = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self)

which after its created pythons garbage collector picks it up and deletes it now

self.b = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self)

would attach it to your "window" and allow you to hold onto it then the question is what are you going to do with it, as it is very hard to manipulate this object as it is. However if you made the button a class of its own you could create various instances of it without issue and retain a handle to it. Then all you would have to do is store the data you need to recreate that button on the fly and re-create it from that data.

class ButTmplt(QPushButton)
    def __init__(self):
        QPushButton.__init__(self)

Note you could add extra parameters to this button if you needed them to define certain aspects that would be different from button to button such its name -- as follows:

class ButTmplt(QPushButton)
    def __init__(self, ButName):
        QPushButton.__init__(self)
        self.setText(ButName)

Oh and the reference line to create the button on the fly would be

    self.b = ButTmplt('ButtonName')

Oh and yes that only solves half your problem as now that you have an attached button how do you get it to show up -- well you would have to place it in the window somewhere but that greatly depends on how you have structured your window which you really did not supply so I cannot speak to that at all. Aka for future reference if you supply sufficient information (such as a minimal fully functional example code) then you might get full answers rather than just partial ones

[LavaCreeperKing]

Thank you.