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Should you be using QT for Python as a GUI? Part two of an eight-part series of blogs
If you need to build a GUI system in Python, PyQt5 is probably the best choice, but don't take our word for it - read this blog and see what you think. Should you be using PyQt? QT Designer (this blog) Widgets Layouts Forms and code Slots and Signals CSS and Formatting Models and Data

Should you be using QT for Python as a GUI?

Part two of an eight-part series of blogs

If you need to build a GUI system in Python, PyQt5 is probably the best choice, but don't take our word for it - read this blog and see what you think.

Posted by Andy Brown on 21 June 2022

QT Designer

QT comes with its own designer, although many diehard programmers prefer to write commands to position widgets on screen (see later in this series of blogs for more on this):

Here I've created a simple form containing 4 widgets: a Label widget, a LineEdit widget and two PushButton widgets.

The designer comes with an Object Inspector window:

The parts of the form shown above as displayed in Object Inspector (every blank form comes with a menu bar and a status bar by default, although at the moment these will be blank).

There's also a conventional Properties window: