Please Help! Absolute Novice - New Job, have this task.

[bob gailer]

Request for future: give us a specific subject e.g. how do I restore a 
button's text/color ?

On 3/18/2020 6:05 PM, mjnash194 at gmail.com wrote:
> Absolute beginner here, have no idea what I am doing wrong. All I want to do here is have the pushButton in PyQt5 to change to "Working..." and Red when clicked... which it currently does.
That's amazing since your code sets the text to WORKING...
> Thing is I need it to also change back to the default "SCAN" and Green color when done running that method the button is linked to...
>
> I know this is a super simple problem, and forgive any Novice errors in this code. I know very very little but if you guys can help me I would highly appreciate it!!! :)
>
> from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
> import sys
> import pyautogui
>
>
>
> class Ui_MainWindow(object):
>      def setupUi(self, MainWindow):
>          MainWindow.setObjectName("MainWindow")
>          MainWindow.showMaximized()
>          MainWindow.setMinimumSize(QtCore.QSize(0, 0))
>          MainWindow.setMaximumSize(QtCore.QSize(3840, 2160))
>          font = QtGui.QFont()
>          font.setFamily("Arial Black")
>          MainWindow.setFont(font)
>          MainWindow.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgba(0, 85, 127, 100);")
>          self.centralwidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(MainWindow)
>          self.centralwidget.setObjectName("centralwidget")
>          self.pushButton = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
>          self.pushButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(250, 250, 400, 150))
>          font = QtGui.QFont()
>          font.setFamily("Tahoma")
>          font.setPointSize(24)
>          font.setBold(True)
>          font.setWeight(75)
>          self.pushButton.setFont(font)
>          self.pushButton.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(0, 170, 0);\n"
> "color: rgb(255, 255, 255);")
>          self.pushButton.setObjectName("pushButton")
>          self.label = QtWidgets.QLabel(self.centralwidget)
>          self.label.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(730, 300, 701, 111))
>          font = QtGui.QFont()
>          font.setPointSize(18)
>          font.setBold(True)
>          font.setItalic(False)
>          font.setWeight(75)
>          self.label.setFont(font)
>          self.label.setLayoutDirection(QtCore.Qt.LeftToRight)
>          self.label.setObjectName("label")
>          MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget)
>          self.menubar = QtWidgets.QMenuBar(MainWindow)
>          self.menubar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 1920, 18))
>          self.menubar.setObjectName("menubar")
>          MainWindow.setMenuBar(self.menubar)
>          self.statusbar = QtWidgets.QStatusBar(MainWindow)
>          self.statusbar.setObjectName("statusbar")
>          MainWindow.setStatusBar(self.statusbar)
>
>          self.retranslateUi(MainWindow)
>          QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(MainWindow)
>
>      def retranslateUi(self, MainWindow):
>          _translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate
>          MainWindow.setWindowTitle(_translate("MainWindow", "MainWindow"))
>          self.label.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgba(0, 85, 127, 0);\n"
> "color: rgb(255, 255, 255);")
>          self.pushButton.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "SCAN"))
>          self.label.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "WELCOME"))
>
>          self.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.copy)
When user clicks button self.copy is invoked. True?
>      def copy(self, MainWindow):
>          self.pushButton.setText('WORKING...')
Why do you sometimes use _translate and not other times?
>          self.pushButton.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(250, 0, 0);\n"
> "color: rgb(255, 255, 255);")
>          testprompt=storeid=pyautogui.prompt(text='test', title='test')

This method does no actual work! If you add

         self.pushButton.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "SCAN"))
         self.pushButton.setStyleSheet # whatever it was originally

it will reset the button. Of course it will so really fast, as there is 
no actual work being done.

So you should first address the issue of actually doing something that 
will take a little time. Also it is not a good idea to duplicate code, 
so I would put those 2 lines in a function and call that function from 2 
places.

Am I going in the right direction? Am I missing something?

> class Application():
>      def run():
>          import sys
>          app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
>          MainWindow = QtWidgets.QMainWindow()
>          ui = Ui_MainWindow()
>          ui.setupUi(MainWindow)
>          MainWindow.show()
>          sys.exit(app.exec_())
>
> Application.run()
Bob Gailer