- Create GUI Applications with PyQt5
- Want to create Python GUIs? Here is everything you need to go from simple UIs to complete apps with PyQt5.
- Where do I begin?
- Learn the fundamentals
- Qt Designer
- 4 ways to create modern GUI in python in the easiest way possible
- Before
- After
- 1. Using eel
- How does it work?
- Installation
Create GUI Applications with PyQt5
Want to create Python GUIs? Here is everything you need to go from simple UIs to complete apps with PyQt5.
Building GUI applications with Python doesn’t have to be difficult. In this tutorial I’ll walk you step by step from simple Python GUIs to real useful apps.
By the end of the tutorial you’ll be able to make your own applications, design professional UIs and even create installers and packages to share your apps with other people.
PyQt5 is a Python GUI framework for making GUI applications using the Qt toolkit. Created by Riverbank Computing, the PyQt library is free software (GPL licensed) and has been in development since 1999. PyQt5 was released in 2016 and last updated in October 2021.
This tutorial requires some basic Python knowledge, but no experience with GUI programming.
Where do I begin?
Take your first steps creating Python GUI applications with these simple step-by-step guides to Python & Qt.
PyQt5 not installed? See our installation guides for Windows, macOS, Linux and Raspberry Pi
Once you’re set up you can get started by Creating your first GUI application with Python.
Learn the fundamentals
Now you have made your first GUI app, let’s go a step further adding widgets and layouts to build some simple Python UIs.
- Connect button presses to actions in your apps with Signals, Slots & Events
- Take a look at Widgets available in PyQt6
- Arrange widgets together using Layouts to build real applications.
- Add toolbars & menus with keyboard shortcuts using QAction.
- Popup dialogs to get confirmation, or select files.
- Build multi-window applications.
Qt Designer
So far we have been creating apps using Python code. This works well in many cases, but it can get a bit cumbersome to define all widgets programmatically. The good news is that Qt comes with a graphical editor — Qt Designer — which contains a drag-and-drop UI editor. Using Qt Designer you can define your UIs visually and then simply hook up the application logic later.
- Take your first steps with Qt Designer & find out how to create UIs and use them in Python
- Work through how to lay out your UIs in Designer to get the hang of how Qt Designer works
- Learn how to create custom Dialogs with Designer and use them in your apps
If you’re going to be distributing your applications, you might also want to take a look at the QResource framework which simplifies bundling data files (like icons) with your applications.
4 ways to create modern GUI in python in the easiest way possible
Hi developers, I am Yash Makan and today we are going to discuss how can you make beautiful UI applications in python. I know that this sounds a little weird when I say «beautiful UI» together in context with python as I personally feel that the standard Tkinter library is not good enough to develop amazing UI. Today we will cover 4 different ways to make modern applications in python so without any further ado let’s begin,
Before
After
1. Using eel
The first method in our list is for developers who know HTML & CSS(if you don’t then I highly recommend it too) with the basics of javascript.
How does it work?
Basically, you are going to develop the frontend using HTML and CSS and write your computation or backend part in python. nd eel act as a bridge between python and javascript and pass data.