Deadline Monitor Script - dynamically add controls at runtime

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I’m trying to work out how to dynamically modify the DeadlineScriptDialog object. I have a few dropdowns that are supposed to generate different options depending on their value.
The idea is to have one Grid in the Dialog that is empty to begin with, but can be filled with various Controls at runtime and can also be cleared. Unfortunately the Controls do not seem to behave the same way as one may expect from Qt widgets, so I’m at a loss as to how to delete and add them at runtime. Any ideas?
Cheers
Michael

[eamsler]

These should actually still be relevant, with the first one being especially so. Just do a forum search for “QDialog” and you’ll find all kinds of examples of intermixing Qt controls with Deadline.

Dynamic GUI

I’m using Deadline 6. Would it be possible to make GUI with buttons for adding and removing text fields? Pretty much I was hoping for something like scriptDialog.RemoveControl(), but since that’s not there, maybe there’s an alternative.

Adding a scroll bar to the job submit UI.

Does anyone know how to add a scroll bar to the job submit UI? At the moment I am having to use scriptControl.AddGroupBox()

How to put an image control in a script dialog?

I’m venturing into making a script for the Deadline Monitor and I want to display an image in a box. Python is not my forté currently. I’ve done some digging and found this example of how to use pyQT with Deadline, which works. Has anyone got a snippet to put an image control in? Doesn’t appear to be that simple and I can find dozens of different examples in Python for making image controls, but so far I’ve got none of them to work. [code]from PyQt4.QtCore import * from PyQt4.QtGui import * #…

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Thanks, those links look useful. However, there’s no way to extend the existing dialog? I don’t really want to re-invent the wheel by writing my own complete dialog. Guess there’s no way around it

Any chance you could log an enhancement request for some sort of “Clear()” function that’ll clear out an e.g. Grid and lets you add fresh controls at runtime?

[eamsler]

Here’s some C++ examples of how to do it:

Qt - Clear all widgets from inside a QWidget's layout

The PyQt way is going to be similar: Walk over the children of a certain parent (in your case the QDialog) and remove everything you find. It may take some head scratching, but do some research and report back! I’ll try and loop back around on Monday.