Hai friends,

The problem here(in the code below) is i want to catch the minimize and close event of QTabWidget(by default this widget do not have any slot named close or minimize) to hide the widget.. so the only way the user can quit the application is by clicking exit from the tray icon menu..

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
import sys

class Ui_TabWidget(object):
    def setupUi(self, TabWidget):
        TabWidget.setObjectName("TabWidget")
        TabWidget.resize(400, 300)
        self.tab = QtGui.QWidget()
        self.tab.setObjectName("tab")
        TabWidget.addTab(self.tab, "")
        self.tab1 = QtGui.QWidget()
        self.tab1.setObjectName("tab1")
        TabWidget.addTab(self.tab1, "")

        self.retranslateUi(TabWidget)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(TabWidget)

    def retranslateUi(self, TabWidget):
        TabWidget.setWindowTitle(QtGui.QApplication.translate("TabWidget", "TabWidget", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        TabWidget.setTabText(TabWidget.indexOf(self.tab), QtGui.QApplication.translate("TabWidget", "Tab 1", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        TabWidget.setTabText(TabWidget.indexOf(self.tab1), QtGui.QApplication.translate("TabWidget", "Tab 2", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))

class Trayicon(QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon):
    def __init__(self,parent=None):
        QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon.__init__(self,parent)
        self.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon("icons/blockattack32.xpm"))
        self.show()

        self.menu=QtGui.QMenu()

        preference=self.menu.addAction("Preferences")
        exit=self.menu.addAction("Exit")

        self.setContextMenu(self.menu)

        self.TabWidget = QtGui.QTabWidget()
        ui = Ui_TabWidget()
        ui.setupUi(self.TabWidget)

        self.connect(exit,QtCore.SIGNAL('triggered()'),self.menuExit)

        self.connect(preference,QtCore.SIGNAL('triggered()'),self.showWidget)


    def menuExit(self):
        app.exit()

    def showWidget(self):
        self.TabWidget.show()

app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
cd=Trayicon()
cd.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

Your help would be much appreciated!!!!!

The QTdesigner created code simply looks too strange. I don't think anyone on DaniWeb uses this utility.

The QTdesigner created code simply looks too strange. I don't think anyone on DaniWeb uses this utility.

I've posted here by thinking that i would atleast get an idea about this.. In the above mentioned thread also he has given only the layout(idea) of executing it.. But anyhow that's how a forum will be.. Some answered and some unanswered and daniweb is not an exception..

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