Getting Started

Requirements

PyQt6extn forked was from old abandoned PySide2exn repo and modified for PyQt6

The PyQt6extn was manually tested in different test environment(in different OS, Python3 and PyQt6 versions). The following data was obtained by conducting tests using Example codes (same one which is given in the Example Section) in the respective version of PyQt6 and Python in Windows and Linux

Recommended

Windows, Linux, MaxOSX.

Python3 > 3.11 and PyQt6 >6.5.2

Installing PyQt6extn

• Install PyQt6extn using pip

pip install PyQt6extn

• or if whl file is exists

pip install PyQt6extn-*****.whl

Quick Demo Application

Quick demo help you to check weather you have successfully installed the Python Package and you are good to go. It comes with a UI loaded with all the widgets in this package with its different customized views. Users can easily differentiate the different styling elements used by widgets.

After installing the PyQt6extn the users can try out quick demo by:

1. Open the cmd or terminal

#RUN
/usr/bin/pyqt6exn-demo
# or
python3
>> from PyQt6extn.demo import demo
>> demo.main()   #PRESS ENTER AND YOU WILL GET A DEMO APPLICATION

Using with QtDesigner

Many a time designing a GUI is better done using the inbuild QtDesigner as it greatly reduces the designing time. The PyQt6extn widgets doesn’t natively have the drag and drop widget feature but you can turn a QFrame to a roundProgressBar widget or to any other PyQt6extn widgets. The steps to do is detailed below:

• Place a QFrame in the exact place where you want the PyQt6extn widget to be.

• Go to the Object Inspector and right click on the QFrame you just created, then click on the Promote to menu, you will see a Promote Widget window popup.

• Create a new Class: for which enter the details(see image) in the Base Class Name, Promoted class name and Header file slots and press Add. Here we used the roundProgressBar Class, but you can use any other class in the PyQt6extn package.
  • Base Class Name Always: QWidget
  • Promoted Class Name : The class name of the widget you want to use: roundProgressBar or spiralProgressBar.
  • Header File: It is always the PyQt6extn.RoundProgressBar.h or PyQt6extn.SpiralProgressBar.h
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  • Note: SAME AS PySide2extn and PySide6extn on screenshots!

• After adding you can see a new Promoted Classes gets one new widget. Then close the Popup.

• After this again right click on the QFrame that we have created and click on Morph into and select the QWidget option. Now the QFrame has changes to QWidget. Now once more right click on to the newly formed QWidget and select: Promote To and select the roundProgressBaroption from there.

• That’s it, you have placed a PyQt6extn Widget into your Application. At present in the QtDesigner you will not see any image of the roundprogressbar but you can use the roundProgressBar inside the python code you write. Convert the .uifile to python file using the pyuic5/pyuic5/pyside6-uicand create a new file and write the following code to display the new made window.

  import sys
  from PyQt6 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
  from PyQt6.QtCore import (QCoreApplication, QPropertyAnimation, QDate, QDateTime, QMetaObject, QObject, QPoint, QRect, QSize, QTime, QUrl, Qt, QEvent)
  from PyQt6.QtGui import (QBrush, QColor, QConicalGradient, QCursor, QFont, QFontDatabase, QIcon, QKeySequence, QLinearGradient, QPalette, QPainter, QPixmap, QRadialGradient, QPen)
  from PyQt6.QtWidgets import *
  #IMPORT PYSIDE2EXTN WIDGET YOU USED IN THE QTDESIGNER FOR DESIGNING.
  from PyQt6extn.RoundProgressBar import roundProgressBar
  #UI FILE CONVERTED FROM .ui to python file ui.py
  from ui import Ui_Form
  class MainWindow(QWidget):
  def init(self):
  super(MainWindow, self).init()
  self.ui = Ui_Form()
  self.ui.setupUi(self)
  if name=="main":
  app = QApplication(sys.argv)
  window = MainWindow()
  window.show()
  sys.exit(app.exec_())
  

  Run this file and we can see the roundProgressBar in the QFrame we made.

  

Exploring Further

Dive deeper into the package check the links below.