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.. _sphx_glr_11_demos_itom_ui_demo_autoConnect.py:

Auto connect signals
=======================

This demo shows how to use the auto-connection feature
for automatically connecting signals from widgets to methods.

The base requirement for this is, that the ui-file is wrapped
by a class in Python.

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.. code-block:: default


    from itomUi import (
        ItomUi,
    )  # import the base class ItomUi from the module itomUi in the itom-packages subfolder
    from itom import ui


    class AutoConnectExample(ItomUi):  # AutoConnectExample is inherited from ItomUi
        def __init__(self):  # constructor

            # call constructor of ItomUi like it would be the constructor of the class itom.ui:
            ItomUi.__init__(self, "autoConnectDemo.ui", ui.TYPEWINDOW)
            self.counter = 0  # create a counter variable for this instance

            # initialize the captions of the labels:
            self.gui.lblCheckResult["text"] = "not checked"
            self.gui.lblSpinResult["text"] = "current value: 0"

        @ItomUi.autoslot("")  # the signal is clicked()
        def on_btnDemo_clicked(self):
            # increment the counter
            self.counter += 1
            ui.msgInformation(
                "button clicked",
                "The button was clicked %i times" % self.counter,
                parent=self.gui,
            )
            self.gui.btnDemo["text"] = "click me again"

        @ItomUi.autoslot("bool")  # the signal is clicked(bool checked)
        def on_checkDemo_clicked(self, checked):
            if checked:
                self.gui.lblCheckResult["text"] = "checked"
            else:
                self.gui.lblCheckResult["text"] = "not checked"

        @ItomUi.autoslot("int")  # the signal is valueChanged ( int i )
        def on_spinDemo_valueChanged(self, value):
            self.gui.lblSpinResult["text"] = "current value: %i" % value


    # create a first instance of AutoConnectExample and the gui
    win1 = AutoConnectExample()
    win1.gui.show()  # show the gui
    win1.gui["geometry"] = (100, 100, 412, 157)

    # create a second instance (due to the class based approach, both windows have different counter variables (among others)
    win2 = AutoConnectExample()
    win2.gui.show()  # show the gui


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