Class: QgsAbstractFileContentSourceLineEdit

class qgis.gui.QgsAbstractFileContentSourceLineEdit(parent: QWidget = None)

Bases: PyQt5.QtWidgets.QWidget

Constructor for QgsAbstractFileContentSourceLineEdit, with the specified parent widget.

Abstract base class for a widgets which allows users to select content from a file, embedding a file, etc.

This class is designed to be used by content which is managed by a QgsAbstractContentCache, i.e. it can handle either direct file paths, base64 encoded contents, or remote HTTP urls.

New in version 3.6:

Methods

messageBar

Returns the message bar associated with the widget.

propertyOverrideToolButton

Returns the property override tool button

setLastPathSettingsKey

Sets a specific settings key to use when storing the last used path for the file source.

setMessageBar

Sets the message bar associated with the widget.

setPropertyOverrideToolButtonVisible

Sets the visibility of the property override tool button

setSource

Sets a new source to show in the widget.

source

Returns the current file source.

Signals

sourceChanged

Emitted whenever the file source is changed in the widget.

messageBar(self) QgsMessageBar

Returns the message bar associated with the widget.

See also

setMessageBar()

Return type

QgsMessageBar

propertyOverrideToolButton(self) QgsPropertyOverrideButton

Returns the property override tool button

New in version 3.16.

Return type

QgsPropertyOverrideButton

setLastPathSettingsKey(self, key: str)

Sets a specific settings key to use when storing the last used path for the file source.

Parameters

key (str) –

setMessageBar(self, bar: QgsMessageBar)

Sets the message bar associated with the widget. This allows the widget to push feedback messages to the appropriate message bar.

See also

messageBar()

Parameters

bar (QgsMessageBar) –

setPropertyOverrideToolButtonVisible(self, visible: bool)

Sets the visibility of the property override tool button

New in version 3.16.

Parameters

visible (bool) –

setSource(self, source: str)

Sets a new source to show in the widget.

See also

source()

See also

sourceChanged()

Parameters

source (str) –

source(self) str

Returns the current file source.

See also

setSource()

See also

sourceChanged()

Return type

str

sourceChanged

Emitted whenever the file source is changed in the widget. [signal]

Parameters

source (str) –