[FIXED] How to find QButton created with a loop?

Issue

in maya one creates a button with:

   cmds.button('buttonname', label='click me')

where buttonname is the name of the button object. At a later stage i can edit the button simply by calling:

   cmds.button('buttonname', e=1, label='click me again')

Now the problem: i created a bunch of buttons in qt using a loop:

  for s in Collection:
        file = os.path.splitext(s)[0]

        # Main widget
        widgetItem = QtWidgets.QWidget()
        layoutItem = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
        widgetItem.setLayout(layoutItem)

        # Button
        button = QtGui.QPushButton()
        button.setObjectName(file)
        layoutItem.addWidget(button)

How can i call/edit one of them using the button name?

Thanks in advance

Solution

Assuming you already have access to their parent widget, you can find them by findChild method.

In C++ syntax, it would be something like this:

QPushButton *button = parentWidget->findChild<QPushButton *>("button1");

where button1 is the name of that button.

Answered By - frogatto