I'm trying to extend this solution Non modal dialog
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
dialog = None
class Dialog(QtWidgets.QDialog):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(Dialog, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.setWindowTitle('A floating dialog')
self.resize(250,250)
class Window(QtWidgets.QWidget):
def __init__(self):
QtWidgets.QWidget.__init__(self)
button = QtWidgets.QPushButton('Open Dialog', self)
button.clicked.connect(self.handleOpenDialog)
self.resize(300, 200)
self._dialog = None
global dialog
dialog = Dialog(self)
dialog.show()
def handleOpenDialog(self):
if self._dialog is None:
self._dialog = QtWidgets.QDialog(self)
self._dialog.resize(200, 100)
self._dialog.exec_()
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
win = Window()
win.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
Apology if title wasn't relevant. I want to have a dialog/window that is independent of all existing window/dialogs, and can be always interacted with, i.e. GUI loop of application window/any dialogs doesn't block this non-model dialog. For simplicity, I have used global variable dialog
in above code snippet which will hold the non-modal dialog instance.
When above program is run, the main window appears along-with the non-modal dialog, and both dialogs are user interactive, but when the button is clicked, the GUI loop of self._dialog
starts, and user can no longer interact with the floating dialog, and application window. What I want is to be able to interact with dialog
but not with Window
I want behavior similar to the example below:
I opened help dialog from main window, then I opened a non-modal dialog which appears on top of the main window, and can not interact with the main window, but still doesn't block help dialog/window and allows user to interact with this non-modal window i.e. the help dialog in the example.
When a dialog is opened with exec()
, it will default to being application-modal. This means it will block all other windows in the application, regardless of whether they're parented to other windows or not. To make a dialog modal for only one window, it must be parented to that window and also have its modality explicitly set to window-modal.
For a dialog to be fully non-modal with respect to all other windows (and any of their modal dialogs), it must have no parent and then be opened with show()
. However, a side-effect of this is that it won't be automatically closed when the main-window is closed. To work around this, it can be explicitly closed in the closeEvent()
of the main-window.
Here is a simple demo that implements all of the above:
import sys
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWidgets
class Window(QtWidgets.QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.setWindowTitle('Main Window')
self.setGeometry(400, 100, 300, 200)
self._help_dialog = None
self._other_dialog = None
self.buttonHelp = QtWidgets.QPushButton('Open Help')
self.buttonHelp.clicked.connect(self.handleOpenHelp)
self.buttonDialog = QtWidgets.QPushButton('Open Dialog')
self.buttonDialog.clicked.connect(self.handleOpenDialog)
layout = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout(self)
layout.addWidget(self.buttonDialog)
layout.addWidget(self.buttonHelp)
self.handleOpenHelp()
def handleOpenDialog(self):
if self._other_dialog is None:
self._other_dialog = QtWidgets.QDialog(self)
self._other_dialog.setWindowModality(QtCore.Qt.WindowModal)
self._other_dialog.setWindowTitle('Other Dialog')
self._other_dialog.resize(200, 100)
self._other_dialog.exec_()
def handleOpenHelp(self):
if self._help_dialog is None:
self._help_dialog = QtWidgets.QDialog()
self._help_dialog.setWindowTitle('Help Dialog')
self._help_dialog.setGeometry(750, 100, 250, 250)
self._help_dialog.show()
def closeEvent(self, event):
if self._help_dialog is not None:
self._help_dialog.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
window = Window()
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())