How to display Object information in QMainWindow

Question

I am attempting to create a GUI with PyQt4 which allows me to create a new Employee and call the Employee's info() method. Here is the Employee class:

class Employee:

  def __init__(self, full_name, id, salary):
    self.full_name = full_name
    self.id = id
    self.salary = salary

  @property
  def info(self):
    return print("Employee ID:", self.id, "\nFull name:", self.full_name, "\nSalary:", self.salary)

Here is the code that integrates PyQt4:

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui
from PyQt4.QtGui import QInputDialog


class Employee:

  def __init__(self, full_name, id, salary):
    self.full_name = full_name
    self.id = id
    self.salary = salary

  @property
  def info(self):
    return print("Employee ID:", self.id, "\nFull name:", self.full_name, "\nSalary:", self.salary)


class Window(QtGui.QMainWindow, Employee):

  def __init__(self):
    super(Window, self).__init__()  #Returns the parrent object or the QMainWindow object
    self.setGeometry(50, 50, 500, 300)
    self.setWindowTitle("Employee builder")

    extractAction = QtGui.QAction("&Add Employee", self)
    extractAction.triggered.connect(self.create_employee)

    mainMenu = self.menuBar()
    fileMenu = mainMenu.addMenu('&File')
    fileMenu.addAction(extractAction)

    self.home()

  def home(self):
    self.show()

  def create_employee(self):
    text, ok = QtGui.QInputDialog.getText(self, 'Input Dialog',
                                          'Enter employees name:')

    ID, ok = QInputDialog.getInt(self, "integer input dualog", "Enter employees id number:")

    pay, ok = QInputDialog.getInt(self, "integer input dualog", "Enter employees salary:")

    emp1 = Employee(text, ID, pay)
    emp1.info


def run():
  app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
  GUI = Window()
  sys.exit(app.exec_())

This code works to display the information from info() in the run window. However, what I would like to do is display the information in the QMainWindow but I am not sure how to do that.

On a side note, I don't know that the way I am going about this is the correct convention so feel free to show me the correct way if I am wrong.

Answer 1

There are many ways to show a result, for example we can use a QMessageBox.

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui


class Employee:
    def __init__(self, full_name, _id, salary):
        self.full_name = full_name
        self.id = _id
        self.salary = salary

    @property
    def info(self):
        return "Employee ID: {}\nFull name:{}\nSalary:{}".format(self.id, self.full_name, self.salary)


class Window(QtGui.QMainWindow, Employee):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Window, self).__init__()  #Returns the parrent object or the QMainWindow object
        self.setGeometry(50, 50, 500, 300)
        self.setWindowTitle("Employee builder")

        extractAction = QtGui.QAction("&Add Employee", self)
        extractAction.triggered.connect(self.create_employee)

        mainMenu = self.menuBar()
        fileMenu = mainMenu.addMenu('&File')
        fileMenu.addAction(extractAction)

    def create_employee(self):
        text, ok = QtGui.QInputDialog.getText(self, 'Input Dialog','Enter employees name:')
        ID, ok = QtGui.QInputDialog.getInt(self, "integer input dualog", "Enter employees id number:")
        pay, ok = QtGui.QInputDialog.getInt(self, "integer input dualog", "Enter employees salary:")
        emp1 = Employee(text, ID, pay)
        QtGui.QMessageBox.information(self, "New Employee", emp1.info)


def run():
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = Window()
    w.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    run()