Subgroup: Editor

Class: QgsEditorWidgetRegistry

class qgis.gui.QgsEditorWidgetRegistry

Bases: PyQt5.QtCore.QObject

Constructor for QgsEditorWidgetRegistry. QgsEditorWidgetRegistry is not usually directly created, but rather accessed through QgsGui.editorWidgetRegistry()

This class manages all known edit widget factories.

QgsEditorWidgetRegistry is not usually directly created, but rather accessed through QgsGui.editorWidgetRegistry()

Methods

childEvent
connectNotify
create Create an attribute editor widget wrapper of a given type for a given field.
createConfigWidget Creates a configuration widget
createSearchWidget
customEvent
disconnectNotify
factories Gets access to all registered factories
factory Gets a factory for the given widget type id.
findBest Find the best editor widget and its configuration for a given field.
initEditors Registers all the default widgets.
isSignalConnected
name Gets the human readable name for a widget type
receivers
registerAutoConfPlugin Register a new auto-conf plugin.
registerWidget Register a new widget factory with the given id
sender
senderSignalIndex
timerEvent

Signals

Attributes

childEvent()
connectNotify()
create(self, widgetId: str, vl: QgsVectorLayer, fieldIdx: int, config: Dict[str, Any], editor: QWidget, parent: QWidget) → QgsEditorWidgetWrapper

Create an attribute editor widget wrapper of a given type for a given field. The editor may be NULL if you want the widget wrapper to create a default widget.

Parameters:
  • widgetId – The id of the widget type to create an attribute editor for
  • vl – The vector layer for which this widget will be created
  • fieldIdx – The field index on the specified layer for which this widget will be created
  • config – A configuration which should be used for the widget creation
  • editor – An editor widget which will be used instead of an autocreated widget
  • parent – The parent which will be used for the created wrapper and the created widget
  • context – The editor context (not available in Python bindings)
Returns:

A new widget wrapper

create(self, vl: QgsVectorLayer, fieldIdx: int, editor: QWidget, parent: QWidget) -> QgsEditorWidgetWrapper Create an attribute editor widget wrapper of the best type for a given field. The editor may be NULL if you want the widget wrapper to create a default widget.

Parameters:
  • vl – The vector layer for which this widget will be created
  • fieldIdx – The field index on the specified layer for which this widget will be created
  • editor – An editor widget which will be used instead of an autocreated widget
  • parent – The parent which will be used for the created wrapper and the created widget
  • context – The editor context (not available in Python bindings)
Returns:

A new widget wrapper

createConfigWidget(self, widgetId: str, vl: QgsVectorLayer, fieldIdx: int, parent: QWidget) → QgsEditorConfigWidget

Creates a configuration widget

Parameters:
  • widgetId – The id of the widget type to create a configuration widget for
  • vl – The vector layer for which this widget will be created
  • fieldIdx – The field index on the specified layer for which this widget will be created
  • parent – The parent widget for the created widget
Returns:

A new configuration widget

createSearchWidget(self, widgetId: str, vl: QgsVectorLayer, fieldIdx: int, config: Dict[str, Any], parent: QWidget) → QgsSearchWidgetWrapper
customEvent()
disconnectNotify()
factories(self) → object

Gets access to all registered factories

Returns:All ids and factories
factory(self, widgetId: str) → QgsEditorWidgetFactory

Gets a factory for the given widget type id.

Returns:A factory or Null if not existent
findBest(self, vl: QgsVectorLayer, fieldName: str) → QgsEditorWidgetSetup

Find the best editor widget and its configuration for a given field.

Parameters:
  • vl – The vector layer for which this widget will be created
  • fieldName – The field name on the specified layer for which this widget will be created
Returns:

The id of the widget type to use and its config

initEditors(self, mapCanvas: QgsMapCanvas = None, messageBar: QgsMessageBar = None)

Registers all the default widgets. Only call this once on startup of an application.

Parameters:
  • mapCanvas – Specify a map canvas with which the widgets (relation reference) work
  • messageBar – Specify a message bar on which messages by widgets will be shown while working with the map canvas

Note

Not required for plugins, the QGIS application does that already

New in version 2.8.

isSignalConnected()
name(self, widgetId: str) → str

Gets the human readable name for a widget type

Parameters:widgetId – The widget type to get the name for
Returns:A human readable name
receivers()
registerAutoConfPlugin(self, plugin: QgsEditorWidgetAutoConfPlugin)

Register a new auto-conf plugin.

Parameters:plugin – The plugin (ownership is transferred)
registerWidget(self, widgetId: str, widgetFactory: QgsEditorWidgetFactory) → bool

Register a new widget factory with the given id

Parameters:
  • widgetId – The id which will be used later to refer to this widget type
  • widgetFactory – The factory which will create this widget type
Returns:

true, if successful, false, if the widgetId is already in use or widgetFactory is NULL

sender()
senderSignalIndex()
timerEvent()