{"id":39,"date":"2024-03-31T15:10:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lerking.servehttp.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2024-04-02T14:44:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:44:51","slug":"desktop-application-using-pyqt6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/desktop-application-using-pyqt6\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop application using pyqt6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To start with, it's recommended to do this in a virtual environment. For information on how to set this up on linux mint 21.2, see this post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going forward I assume running python 3.11 in a venv. So in the virtual enviroment, install the pyqt6 module.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(p3.11)someone@somewhere:~\/venv\/p3.11$ python -m pip install pyqt6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we create a folder for our application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(p3.11)someone@somewhere:~\/venv\/p3.11$ mkdir pyqt6_application<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter the folder created above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(p3.11)someone@somewhere:~\/venv\/p3.11$ cd pyqt6_application<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create an empty file, called app.py<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(p3.11)someone@somewhere:~\/venv\/p3.11$ touch app.py<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you can start using pyqt6. Start by opening the app.py file in your favorite editor. Enter\/copy and paste the code below in the app.py file. Now save the file.from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget # Only needed for access to command line arguments import sys # You need one (and only one) QApplication instance per application. # Pass in sys.argv to allow command line arguments for your app. # If you know you won't use command line arguments QApplication([]) works too. app = QApplication(sys.argv) # Create a Qt widget, which will be our window. window = QWidget() window.show() # IMPORTANT!!!!! Windows are hidden by default. # Start the event loop. app.exec() # Your application won't reach here until you exit and the event # loop has stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Run the app.py file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(p3.11)someone@somewhere:~\/venv\/p3.11\/pyqt6_application$ python app.py<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resulting application looks like this, on linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"This<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This concludes the first post in a series of pyqt6 posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until next time - Happy coding<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    To start with, it’s recommended to do this in a virtual environment. For information on how to set this up on linux mint 21.2, see this post Going forward I assume running python 3.11 in a venv. So in the virtual enviroment, install the pyqt6 module. (p3.11)someone@somewhere:~\/venv\/p3.11$ python -m pip install pyqt6 Now we create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,20,16],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-gui","tag-pyqt6","tag-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lerk.ing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}