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pyqt text box

PyQt4 textbox example

In this article you will learn how to interact with a textbox using PyQt4.

If you want to display text in a textbox (QLineEdit) you could use the setText() method.

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Create GUI Apps with PyQt5

PyQt4 QLineEdit

The textbox example below changes the text if the button is pressed.


import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import pyqtSlot
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

# create our window
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
w = QWidget()
w.setWindowTitle('Textbox example @pythonspot.com')

# Create textbox
textbox = QLineEdit(w)
textbox.move(20, 20)
textbox.resize(280,40)

# Set window size.
w.resize(320, 150)

# Create a button in the window
button = QPushButton('Click me', w)
button.move(20,80)

# Create the actions
@pyqtSlot()
def on_click():
    textbox.setText("Button clicked.")

# connect the signals to the slots
button.clicked.connect(on_click)

# Show the window and run the app
w.show()
app.exec_()

The text field is created with the lines:


textbox = QLineEdit(w)
textbox.move(20, 20)
textbox.resize(280,40)

The button (from screenshot) is made with:


button = QPushButton('Click me', w)

We connect the button to the on_click function by:


# connect the signals to the slots
button.clicked.connect(on_click)

This function sets the textbox using setText().

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Qt4 window

PyQt4 window on Ubuntu

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a graphical hello world application with PyQT4.

PyQT4, it is one of Pythons options for graphical user interface (GUI) programming.

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Create GUI Apps with PyQt5

PyQt4 window example:

This application will create a graphical window that can be minimized, maximimzed and resized it.


#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

# Create an PyQT4 application object.
a = QApplication(sys.argv)

# The QWidget widget is the base class of all user interface objects in PyQt4.
w = QWidget()

# Set window size.
w.resize(320, 240)

# Set window title
w.setWindowTitle("Hello World!")

# Show window
w.show()

sys.exit(a.exec_())

The PyQT4 module must be immported, we do that with this line:


from PyQt4.QtGui import *

We create the PyQT4 application object using QApplication():


a = QApplication(sys.argv)

We create the window (QWidget), resize, set the tittle and show it with this code:


w = QWidget()
w.resize(320, 240)
w.setWindowTitle("Hello World!")

Don’t forget to show the window:


# Show window
w.show()

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qt message box

PyQT4 offers message box functionality using several functions.
Messageboxes included in PyQT4 are: question, warning, error, information, criticial and about box.

Related course: Create GUI Apps with Python PyQt5

PyQt4 mesagebox

The code below will display a message box with two buttons:

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

# Create an PyQT4 application object.
a = QApplication(sys.argv)

# The QWidget widget is the base class of all user interface objects in PyQt4.
w = QWidget()

# Show a message box
result = QMessageBox.question(w, 'Message', "Do you like Python?", QMessageBox.Yes | QMessageBox.No, QMessageBox.No)

if result == QMessageBox.Yes:
    print('Yes.')
else:
    print('No.')

# Show window
w.show()

sys.exit(a.exec_())

Result:

qtMessagebox question

There are different types of messageboxes that PyQT4 provides.

PyQT4 Warning Box

You can display a warning box using this line of code:

QMessageBox.warning(w, "Message", "Are you sure you want to continue?")

PyQT4 Information box

We can display an information box using QMessageBox.information()

QMessageBox.information(w, "Message", "An information messagebox @ pythonspot.com ")

Result:

QMessageBox Info

PyQT4 Critical Box

If something goes wrong in your application you may want to display an error message.

QMessageBox.critical(w, "Message", "No disk space left on device.")

Result:

QMessagebox

PyQT4 About box

We have shown the question box above.

QMessageBox.about(w, "About", "An example messagebox @ pythonspot.com ")

Result:

qt Messagebox

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pyqt menu

PyQT Menu

PyQt4 menus appear in the top of the window bar. A menu gives the user control over the application and is often location in the top of the window.

The QMainWindow class creates the main application window. This class has a method named menuBar() which adds the title bar.

Menus can be added to the title bar using addMenu(). Inside each menu you can add a command using the addAction method.

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PyQt4 menubar

This code will add a menu to your qt4 app:

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

# Create an PyQT4 application object.
a = QApplication(sys.argv)

# The QWidget widget is the base class of all user interface objects in PyQt4.
w = QMainWindow()

# Set window size.
w.resize(320, 240)

# Set window title
w.setWindowTitle("Hello World!")

# Create main menu
mainMenu = w.menuBar()
mainMenu.setNativeMenuBar(False)
fileMenu = mainMenu.addMenu('&amp;File')

# Add exit button
exitButton = QAction(QIcon('exit24.png'), 'Exit', w)
exitButton.setShortcut('Ctrl+Q')
exitButton.setStatusTip('Exit application')
exitButton.triggered.connect(w.close)
fileMenu.addAction(exitButton)

# Show window
w.show()

sys.exit(a.exec_())

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pyqt widgets

We have various widgets that we can access with PyQT. Including:

Textbox
Combobox
Calendar

For more widgets we suggest using the GUI creation tool covered in the next tutorial.

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Textbox widget
Input fields are present in nearly every application. In PyQT4 an input field can be created using the QLineEdit() function.

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

# Create an PyQT4 application object.
a = QApplication(sys.argv)

# The QWidget widget is the base class of all user interface objects in PyQt4.
w = QMainWindow()

# Set window size.
w.resize(320, 100)

# Set window title
w.setWindowTitle("PyQT Python Widget!")

# Create textbox
textbox = QLineEdit(w)
textbox.move(20, 20)
textbox.resize(280,40)

# Show window
w.show()

sys.exit(a.exec_())

qt textbox

Combobox
A combobox can be used to select an item from a list.

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

# Create an PyQT4 application object.
a = QApplication(sys.argv)

# The QWidget widget is the base class of all user interface objects in PyQt4.
w = QMainWindow()

# Set window size.
w.resize(320, 100)

# Set window title
w.setWindowTitle("PyQT Python Widget!")

# Create combobox
combo = QComboBox(w)
combo.addItem("Python")
combo.addItem("Perl")
combo.addItem("Java")
combo.addItem("C++")
combo.move(20,20)

# Show window
w.show()

sys.exit(a.exec_())

qt combobox

Calendar widget
The PyQT4 library has a calendar widget, you can create it using the QCalendarWidget() call.

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

# Create an PyQT4 application object.
a = QApplication(sys.argv)

# The QWidget widget is the base class of all user interface objects in PyQt4.
w = QMainWindow()

# Set window size.
w.resize(320, 240)

# Set window title
w.setWindowTitle("PyQT Python Widget!")

# Create calendar
cal = QCalendarWidget(w)
cal.setGridVisible(True)
cal.move(0, 0)
cal.resize(320,240)

# Show window
w.show()

sys.exit(a.exec_())

Result:

calendar qt

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open file python

In this short tutorial you will learn how to create a file dialog and load its file contents. The file dialog is needed in many applications that use file access.

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Create GUI Apps with PyQt5

File Dialog Example
To get a filename (not file data) in PyQT you can use the line:

filename = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(w, 'Open File', '/')

If you are on Microsoft Windows use

filename = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(w, 'Open File', 'C:\')

An example below (includes loading file data):

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

# Create an PyQT4 application object.
a = QApplication(sys.argv)

# The QWidget widget is the base class of all user interface objects in PyQt4.
w = QWidget()

# Set window size.
w.resize(320, 240)

# Set window title
w.setWindowTitle("Hello World!")

# Get filename using QFileDialog
filename = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(w, 'Open File', '/')
print(filename)

# print file contents
with open(filename, 'r') as f:
    print(f.read())

# Show window
w.show()

sys.exit(a.exec_())

Result (output may vary depending on your operating system):

PyQt File Open Dialog.

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If you have not done our first PyQT tutorial yet, you should do it, it’s fun! In this tutorial we will use PyQT4 and a user interface markup language, a language that describes the graphical user interfaces and controls .

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Create GUI Apps with PyQt5

QML and PyQT

An excerpt of user interface markup graphical user interfaces and language code could look like:

 Rectangle {
id: simplebutton
color: "grey"
width: 150; height: 75

Essentially the language tells what the interface should look like. The language we will be using is called QML.

QTCreator

Start a programmed called QTCreator. The tutorial will be quite graphical to help you through the whole process. Simply type qtcreator in the terminal or start it from the menu list. This screen should pop up:

qtcreator

Creating a GUI

Press the big New Project button. Select QT Quick Application from the menu below. Finally press Choose on the bottom right.

qtquick

A new popup will appear:

kde create

Type a name and a valid path to save your project. Then press Next. Select QT Quick 2.0 from the menu list. Press Next. Press Finish. Immediately a user interface defined in the QML language will appear.

qt quick

Like all great programmers we are going to solve things the most lazy way possible. Instead of typing all the QML code by hand we are going to press the Design button that is on the left of the screen. A drag and drop screen should appear now.

draganddrop

We drag an image onto the area and select the source on the right. Save the project. Open a terminal and locate the qml file you just created. Alternatively you could simply copy the code in the edit box and save it to a .qml file. Enter the command:

qmlviewer main.qml

This will display the windows as defined in the qml file without any functionality. It is simply a viewer for the interface. We then create some code to load this QML definition:

import sys

from PyQt4.QtCore import QDateTime, QObject, QUrl, pyqtSignal
from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication
from PyQt4.QtDeclarative import QDeclarativeView

app = QApplication(sys.argv)

# Create the QML user interface.
view = QDeclarativeView()
view.setSource(QUrl('main.qml'))
view.setResizeMode(QDeclarativeView.SizeRootObjectToView)
view.setGeometry(100, 100, 400, 240)
view.show()

app.exec_()

Finally we modify the first line main.qml to:

import Qt 4.7

Simply because our QtQuick was missing. Running

python run.py

Will now display our user interface as defined by QML:

QML and PyQT

All of the code is simply PyQT, so you could add code like in the previous tutorial. These are the two methods to create a graphical interface with PyQT. This method may be more loosely coupled to the code compared to the method of creating a GUI with QT in the previous tutorial. Despite that both are valid methods.

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Tag: qt

pyqt text box

PyQt4 QLineEdit

Qt4 window

PyQt4 window example:

qt message box

PyQt4 mesagebox

PyQT4 Warning Box

PyQT4 Information box

PyQT4 Critical Box

PyQT4 About box

pyqt menu

PyQt4 menubar

pyqt widgets

open file python

pyqt qml

QML and PyQT

QTCreator

Creating a GUI