Is there a way to bring the already opened QGIS plugin dialog that I wrote to the front with a click on the icon in the QGIS toolbar?
By default, it only opens on click, and to bring it to the front I need to minimize everything in front of it to reaccess the dialog. I haven't made any changes to the default code that the Plugin Builder produced, I only added functionalities that I needed.
You need to use QWidget method activateWindow() as mentioned in this answer by Avaris.
You can then modify your plugin from this :
def run(self):
"""Run method that performs all the real work"""
# Create the dialog with elements (after translation) and keep reference
# Only create GUI ONCE in callback, so that it will only load when the plugin is started
if self.first_start == True:
self.first_start = False
self.dlg = YourPluginDialog()
# show the dialog
self.dlg.show()
# Run the dialog event loop
result = self.dlg.exec_()
# See if OK was pressed
if result:
# Do something
To this :
def run(self):
"""Run method that performs all the real work"""
# Create the dialog with elements (after translation) and keep reference
# Only create GUI ONCE in callback, so that it will only load when the plugin is started
if self.first_start == True:
self.first_start = False
self.dlg = YourPluginDialog()
# show the dialog
self.dlg.show()
else:
self.dlg.activateWindow()
# Run the dialog event loop
result = self.dlg.exec_()
print(result)
# See if OK was pressed
if result == 1:
# Do something
result must be equal to 1 because reopening the dialog might give result the value of -1, so if result is valid. 1 is the outcome when the user is pressing the OK button.
