Description: I have written a custom log handler for capturing log events and writing them to a QTextBrowser object (working sample code shown below).
Translating JoeXinfa's answer to PyQt5:
import sys
import time
import logging
from PyQt5.QtCore import QObject, pyqtSignal, QThread
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QWidget, QTextEdit, QPushButton, QVBoxLayout, QApplication
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
class ConsoleWindowLogHandler(logging.Handler, QObject):
sigLog = pyqtSignal(str)
def __init__(self):
logging.Handler.__init__(self)
QObject.__init__(self)
def emit(self, logRecord):
message = str(logRecord.getMessage())
self.sigLog.emit(message)
class Window(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super(Window, self).__init__()
# Layout
textBox = QTextEdit()
textBox.setReadOnly(True)
self.button = QPushButton('Click')
vertLayout = QVBoxLayout()
vertLayout.addWidget(textBox)
vertLayout.addWidget(self.button)
self.setLayout(vertLayout)
# Connect button
#self.button.clicked.connect(self.someProcess) # blocking
self.button.clicked.connect(self.buttonPressed)
# Thread
self.bee = Worker(self.someProcess, ())
self.bee.finished.connect(self.restoreUi)
self.bee.terminate()
# Console handler
consoleHandler = ConsoleWindowLogHandler()
consoleHandler.sigLog.connect(textBox.append)
logger.addHandler(consoleHandler)
def buttonPressed(self):
self.button.setEnabled(False)
self.bee.start()
def someProcess(self):
logger.error("starting")
for i in range(10):
logger.error("line%d" % i)
time.sleep(2)
def restoreUi(self):
self.button.setEnabled(True)
class Worker(QThread):
def __init__(self, func, args):
super(Worker, self).__init__()
self.func = func
self.args = args
def run(self):
self.func(*self.args)
def main():
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = Window()
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()