poivronjaune / pyqt6-mainwindow

Basic boiler plate for a simple PyQt6 Main Window with Menu bar, Tool bar, Actions and Central Widget.

PyQt6 - Main Window Boiler Plate

Warning
This project provides no functionnality. It is only a PyQt6 Stub to start your own project. Many tutorials create a simple window using a QWidget that acts as the entry point of an app. We chose something else :)

We Hope this will help you get started

The basic Main Window Application can be found in the app.py script.

Installation

Clone this project on your windows environment and run

git clone [email protected]:poivronjaune/PyQt6-MainWindow.git
cd PyQt6-MainWindow

python -m venv env
.\env\Scripts\Activate

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -e .

python app.py

On linux use source bin/activate instead of .env\Scripts\Activate

Basic usage

For those who are familiar with python coding and packages, a PyQt6 Main Window application requires the following to be done:

• Create a QApplication with the event loop that manages events, widgets and user interaction
• Create a QMainWindow object on which to add other components
• Create QActions with icons, text and connect callback methods to each
• Attach a menuBar() to the QMainWindow and addActions() to this menuBar
• Attach a QToolBar() to the QMainWindow() and addActions() to this Toolbar
• Launch the EventLoop for the QApplication()

Detailed explanation

Checkout the Github Wiki for detailed explanations with step by step learning. We also discuss some basic object-oriented principles.

We hope you enjoy our presentation!

References

PyQt6 Documentation
The Qt Open Collaboration Effort
The PyQt6 Package from Pypi
Riverbank Computing - Creator of Qt Framework
Python Guis tutorials on PyQt6
Pyhton Tutprial on PyQt6
Coder's Legacy PyQt6 Tutorial Series
2015 PDF PyQt5.5 and 4