PyQGIS Turn on panel not working once inside class (QDockWidget)

Question

I am relatively new to PyQGIS and struggling to convert my simple code into a plugin class. The code works when run from the Python window, but when I add it to def run(self): I get an error. I am trying to get the plugin to display the GPSInformation window.

def run(self):
    for x in iface.mainWindow().findChildren(QDockWidget):
        if x.objectName() == 'GPSInformation':
            x.setVisible(False)

The error says NameError: name 'QDockWidget' is not defined

Answer 1

You need to import the QDockWidget using

from qgis.PyQt.QtWidgets import QDockWidget

You may also consider using self.iface.mainWindow() instead of iface.mainWindow() if you have declared it this way in your plugin. Normally when creating a new plugin, it's already declared this way. You can also shortened your code with iface.mainWindow().findChildren(QDockWidget, 'GPSInformation')