[Ticket #5975] Get reference to active task dialog

[Joel_graff]

Is it possible to get a reference to the active task dialog in Python?

Gui.Control.activeDialog() only returns a boolean indicating whether or not it exists.

[TheMarkster]

This is code from the wiki on adding a new tab to the combo view. Perhaps it will help.

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# create new Tab in ComboView
from PySide import QtGui,QtCore
#from PySide import uic

def getMainWindow():
   "returns the main window"
   # using QtGui.qApp.activeWindow() isn't very reliable because if another
   # widget than the mainwindow is active (e.g. a dialog) the wrong widget is
   # returned
   toplevel = QtGui.qApp.topLevelWidgets()
   for i in toplevel:
       if i.metaObject().className() == "Gui::MainWindow":
           return i
   raise Exception("No main window found")

def getComboView(mw):
   dw=mw.findChildren(QtGui.QDockWidget)
   for i in dw:
       if str(i.objectName()) == "Combo View":
           return i.findChild(QtGui.QTabWidget)
       elif str(i.objectName()) == "Python Console":
           return i.findChild(QtGui.QTabWidget)
   raise Exception ("No tab widget found")

mw = getMainWindow()
tab = getComboView(getMainWindow())
tab2=QtGui.QDialog()
tab.addTab(tab2,"A Special Tab")

#uic.loadUi("/myTaskPanelforTabs.ui",tab2)
tab2.show()
#tab.removeTab(2)

You might need to change qApp to QApplication.

[Joel_graff]

This is code from the wiki on adding a new tab to the combo view. Perhaps it will help.

Yeah, I've got that code. I was just hoping there was a way to directly get a reference to the active task dialog. That's what Control.activeDialog() returns on the C++, side, but it's reduced to a boolean for the Python call.

I have a workaround figured out already, so it's not an issue - but it sure seems like a valuable feature to add to Gui::ControlPy

[wmayer]

Feel free to open a ticket for a feature request.

[Joel_graff]

Done.

https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=4090

[Kunda1]

Done.

https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=4090

@Joel_graff care to add this forum thread link to the ticket (didn't see it there) and also modifying/prepending the thread title with the ticket number associated ? Thanks!

[Joel_graff]

@Joel_graff care to add this forum thread link to the ticket (didn't see it there) and also modifying/prepending the thread title with the ticket number associated ? Thanks!

Done!

[rockn]

+1 for this feature request

In the meantime, do you know a workaround to get the name of the active dialog ?

[walpa]

+1 for this

I have a workaround figured out already, so it's not an issue...

@Joel_graff can you show how you did it?
Thanks.

[Joel_graff]

I have no idea how I did it. Or where that code resides anymore. lol

I'll dig around and see if I can figure it out.