Introducing QT Creator / QT Designer

The four preceding figures are screenshots of the PyQt 5 window, which will refresh itself every second.

For simple examples, designing the GUI in the Python code can be good enough, but for more complex applications, this solution does not scale.

There are some tools to help you design the GUI for Qt, and one of the most commonly used tools was QT Designer. In the first edition of this book, this section was about GUI making with QT Designer. Since the late QT4 development, QT Designer has merged with QT Creator. In the following example, we would learn how to open the secret QT Designer in QT Creator and create a UI file.

Similar to Glade, we can design the user interface part of the application using ...

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