The QApplication class manages the GUI application’s control flow and main settings. It specializes in the QGuiApplication with some functionality needed for QWidget based applications. It handles widget specific initialization, finalization. For any GUI application using Qt, there is precisely one QApplication object, no matter whether the application has 0, 1, 2, or more windows at any given time. For non-QWidget based Qt applications, use QGuiApplication instead, as it does not depend on the QtWidgets library.
We then create a window instance and execute the QApplication object in the event loop using sys.exit(App.exec()) command, below are some useful and frequently methods and property used with the QApplication object.
Syntax: App = QApplication(sys.argv)
Parameters:
- beep: Sounds the bell, using the default volume and sound. This function is not available in Qt for Embedded Linux
- setFont: It sets the default font of the PyQt5 Application
- aboutQt: Displays a simple message box about Qt. The message includes the version number of Qt being used by the application.
- closeAllWindows: Closes all top-level windows. This function is particularly useful for applications with many top-level windows.
- setAutoSipEnabled: It automatically displays the SIP when entering widgets that accept keyboard input
- setCursorFlashTime: This method sets the text cursor’s flash (blink) time in milliseconds
- setDoubleClickInterval: This method sets the time limit in milliseconds that distinguishes a double click from two consecutive mouse clicks
Example:
We will create a simple PyQt5 application which produces a beep sound when it gets executed and many properties are set to the QApplication object, below is the implementation
# importing libraries from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui
from PyQt5.QtGui import *
from PyQt5.QtCore import *
import sys
class Window(QMainWindow):
def __init__( self ):
super ().__init__()
# setting title
self .setWindowTitle( "Python " )
# setting geometry
self .setGeometry( 100 , 100 , 500 , 400 )
# calling method
self .UiComponents()
# showing all the widgets
self .show()
# method for components
def UiComponents( self ):
# creating a push button
push = QPushButton( "Press" , self )
# setting geometry to the push button
push.setGeometry( 100 , 100 , 120 , 40 )
# creating a label
label = QLabel( "GeeksforGeeks" , self )
# setting geometry to the label
label.setGeometry( 100 , 160 , 200 , 50 )
# setting alignment to the label
label.setAlignment(Qt.AlignCenter)
# font
font = QFont( "Arial" , 12 )
# setting font to the label
label.setFont(font)
# setting style sheet to the label
label.setStyleSheet( "QLabel"
"{"
"border : 2px solid green;"
"background : lightgreen;"
"}" )
# hiding the label
label.hide()
# adding action method to the push button
push.clicked.connect( lambda : do_something())
# method called by the push button when pressed
def do_something():
# unhide the label
label.show()
# create pyqt5 app App = QApplication(sys.argv)
# setting cursor flashtime App.setCursorFlashTime( 100 )
# setting application object name App.setObjectName( "GfG" )
# setting application display name App.setApplicationDisplayName( "GfG PyQt5" )
# beep sound will occur when application # is opened App.beep() # message displayed about the Qt App.aboutQt() # create the instance of our Window window = Window()
# start the app sys.exit(App. exec ())
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Output:
When we execute the code firstly the about Qt page will get displayed
Then our application will get started