Tutorials

PyQt5 Tutorial

PyQt is a Python library for creating GUI applications using the Qt toolkit. Created by Riverbank Computing, PyQt is free software (GPL licensed) and has been in development since 1999. PyQt5 was released in 2016 and last updated in October 2021.

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System tray & Mac menu bar applications

Add quick access functions to your apps

Packaging PyQt5 apps with fbs

Distribute cross-platform GUI applications with the fman Build System

Packaging PyQt5 applications for Windows with PyInstaller & InstallForge

Turn your PyQt5 application into a distributable installer for Windows

PyQt6 Tutorial

PyQt is a Python library for creating GUI applications using the Qt toolkit. Created by Riverbank Computing, PyQt is free software (GPL licensed) and has been in development since 1999. The latest version PyQt6 -- based on Qt 6 -- was released in 2021 and the library continues to be updated.

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Creating custom GUI widgets in PyQt6

Build a completely functional custom widget from scratch using QPainter

Creating Dialogs With Qt Designer

Using the drag and drop editor to build PyQt6 dialogs

Creating your first app with PyQt6

A simple Hello World! application with Python and Qt6

PySide2 Tutorial

PySide, also known as Qt for Python, is a Python library for creating GUI applications using the Qt toolkit. PySide is the official binding for Qt on Python and is now developed by The Qt Company itself.

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Using QResource to package data files with PyInstaller

Serialize data files for easy packaging in Python

Displaying tabular data in Qt ModelViews

Create customized table views with conditional formatting, numpy and pandas data sources.

Plotting with Matplotlib

Create PySide plots with the popular Python plotting library

PySide6 Tutorial

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Packaging PySide6 applications for Windows with PyInstaller & InstallForge

Turn your PySide6 application into a distributable installer for Windows

Multithreading PySide6 applications with QThreadPool

Run background tasks concurrently without impacting your UI

PySide6 Widgets

Using QPushButton, QCheckBox, QComboBox, QLabel, and QSlider widgets

Tkinter Tutorial

Tkinter is a Python library for creating GUI applications using the Tk toolkit. Tkinter comes bundled with Python on both Windows and macOS. (On Linux, it may require downloading an additional package from your distribution's repo.) Tkinter is a wrapper written around the Tk GUI toolkit. Its name is an amalgamation of the words Tk and Interface.

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