From ac99ec8a7614286e6b1da6ad5adec99faac37230 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Wehling-Benatelli <sebastian.wehling@rub.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:24:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added static method to the FilterOptionsDialog in order to be
 able to directly get an filter object without having to create an dialog
 object in advance explicitly

---
 pylot/core/util/widgets.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pylot/core/util/widgets.py b/pylot/core/util/widgets.py
index e69b2a92..a5e61da5 100644
--- a/pylot/core/util/widgets.py
+++ b/pylot/core/util/widgets.py
@@ -978,6 +978,13 @@ class FilterOptionsDialog(QDialog):
     def getFilterOptions(self):
         return self.filterOptions
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def getFilterObject():
+        dlg = FilterOptionsDialog()
+        if dlg.exec_():
+            return dlg.getFilterOptions()
+        return None
+
     def accept(self):
         self.updateUi()
         QDialog.accept(self)