Feature Request: readonly QTextEdit widget on MainWindow which displays Consoleo output (and possibly log same output to a log file)

[jngreene]

A window at the bottom of the Mainwindow showing the console output instead of or in addition too the sys.stdout
May be as simple as adding:
ui_mainwind.py

        self.consoleTextEdit = QtWidgets.QTextEdit(parent=MainWidget)
        sizePolicy = QtWidgets.QSizePolicy(QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Policy.Fixed, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Policy.Fixed)
        sizePolicy.setHorizontalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setVerticalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setHeightForWidth(self.pushToListenHotkey.sizePolicy().hasHeightForWidth())
        self.textEditConsole.setSizePolicy(sizePolicy)
        self.textEditConsole.setMinimumSize(QtCore.QSize(180, 0))
        self.textEditConsole.setMaximumSize(QtCore.QSize(200, 16777215))
        self.textEditConsole.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignmentFlag.AlignCenter)
        self.textEditConsole.setReadOnly(True)
        self.textEditConsole.setPlainText(True)
        self.textEditConsole.setObjectName("consoleTextEdit")
        self.textEditConsole = QtWidgets.QTextEdit()
        self.horizontalLayout_5.addWidget(self.textEditConsole)
        self.horizontalLayout_5.setObjectName("horizontalLayout_5")
        self.gridLayout_2.addLayout(self.horizontalLayout_5, 5, 0, -1, -1)

and then in the correct location define a function like:

consoleOutput(console_str):
    self.textEditConsole.append(str(console_str))
    return console_str

Then replace all of the print(str(ex)) with

print(consoleOutput(str(ex)))

Please double check everything first , this is my first attempt at actual widget programming in Python.

[jngreene]

Closing as duplicate. My error. Sorry

[jngreene]

Closed the wroong one.
Cod esubmission:
ui_mainwnd.py:

#Line 15 replace:  260 with 520  ( to expand main widget height and make room for the output widget)
        MainWidget.resize(820, 520)
#line 157 +15 lines: 
        self.horizontalLayout_5 = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout()
        self.textEditConsole = QtWidgets.QTextEdit(parent=MainWidget)
        sizePolicy = QtWidgets.QSizePolicy(QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Policy.Fixed, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Policy.Fixed)
        sizePolicy.setHorizontalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setVerticalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setHeightForWidth(self.pushToListenHotkey.sizePolicy().hasHeightForWidth())
        self.textEditConsole.setSizePolicy(sizePolicy)
        self.textEditConsole.setMinimumSize(QtCore.QSize(780, 12))
        self.textEditConsole.setMaximumSize(QtCore.QSize(780, 16777215))
        self.textEditConsole.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignmentFlag.AlignCenter)
        self.textEditConsole.setReadOnly(True)
        self.textEditConsole.setObjectName("textEditConsole")
        self.horizontalLayout_5.addWidget(self.textEditConsole)
        self.horizontalLayout_5.setObjectName("horizontalLayout_5")
        self.gridLayout_2.addLayout(self.horizontalLayout_5, 6, 0, -1, -1)
        self.textEditConsole.setPlainText('Initializing...')

This is tested and creates a nice readonly textbox below the existing widgets. This would create the widget with a starting text of Initializing. will update further with the placement of the consoleOutput(console_str) function and calls to it.