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Welcome to the qt5_by_example wiki! --- We now replaced.... See:

Early in 2026, we created "PyQT by example: What We Know about QT6" over at https://github.com/russ-hensel/pyqt_by_example by porting this project to QT6. As of this writing, that's where most active development is occurring.

Introduction ---------

• Who This Book is For
• What This Book Is
• How to Use this Book
• Status App/Book/Wiki

Tutorial ---------

• Installing QT5 for Python
• Creating A Minimal Application
• Minimal Application with Just a Button
• Other References
• Installing QT Example App
• Using QT Example App
• Using QT Example Tabs
• How to Use the Wat Inspector

Basic Widget Reference ---------

• Widget Reference for the basic widgets like buttons.... and layouts

Useful widgets for DB access ---------
* SQL with QT: Databases with the QT SQL APIs

Other Code of Interest

• Other Code of Interest tabs below will be moved in time to this topic
  • Matplotlib Integration
  • What We Know About Progress Dialogs
  • Parsing JSON with QT
  • Generating JSON with QT

Code Like Real Python ---------

• Building a GUI Desktop Calculator

Code Based On Books ---------

• Fitz Book many tabs in app, document ion wip

Hows This App Works Internals ---------

• QT5_By_Example Design
• Design of TabBase
• Code Like Real Python
• Code Descended from TabReBase
• Code Descended from TabBase
• Preferences

Notes for Authors ---------

• Russ Notes: what it says
• David Notes: what it says
• WIP