mainwindow — Main window of the UI. Fills main menu.

Module contains enki.core.mainwindow.MainWindow implementation

class enki.core.mainwindow.MainWindow

Bases: QMainWindow

Main UI window

Class creates window elements, fills main menu with items.

If you need to access to some existing menu items - check action path in the class constructor, than use next code:

core.actionManager().action("mFile/aOpen").setEnabled(True)
core.actionManager().action("mFile/aOpen").triggered.connect(self.myCoolMethod)

MainWindow instance is accessible as:

from enki.core.core import core
core.mainwindow()

Created by the core

hideAllWindows

hideAllWindows()

Signal emitted, when user toggled “Hide all” . Dock widgets are closed automatically, but other widgets, i.e. search widget, must catch this signal and close themselves.

directoryDropt

directoryDropt()

Signal emitted, when user drag-n-dropt directory to main windowd. FileBrowser shows directory

del_()

Explicitly called destructor

menuBar()

Reference to menuBar

topToolBar()

Top tool bar. Contains main menu, position indicator, etc

statusBar()

Return main window status bar. It is located on the top tool bar

setWorkspace(workspace)

Set central widget of the main window. Normally called only by core when initializing system

defaultTitle()

Default title. Contains name and version

centralLayout()

Layout of the central widget. Contains Workspace and search widget

appendMessage(text, timeoutMs=10000)

Append message to the queue. It will be shown as non-modal at the bottom of the window. Use such notifications, which are too long or too important for status bar but, not so important, to interrupt an user with QMessageBox

closeEvent(event)

NOT A PUBLIC API Close event handler. Shows save files dialog. Cancels close, if dialog was rejected

loadState()

Restore window state from main_window_state.bin and config. Called by the core after all plugins had been initialized

sizeHint()

dragEnterEvent(event)

QMainWindow method reimplementation. Say, that we are ready to accept dragged urls

dropEvent(event)

QMainWindow method reimplementation. Open dropt files

addDockWidget(area, dock)

removeDockWidget(dock)

restoreState(state)