I'm reading a tutorial on PySide and I was thinking , do I need to find my own icons for every thing or is there some way to use some built in icons . That way I wouldn't need to find an entire new set of icons if I want my little gui to run on another desktop environment .
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A PyQt5 example that will display all built-in icons (the list is from the QStyle docs).
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QApplication, QGridLayout, QPushButton, QStyle, QWidget)
class Window(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super(Window, self).__init__()
icons = [
'SP_ArrowBack',
'SP_ArrowDown',
'SP_ArrowForward',
'SP_ArrowLeft',
'SP_ArrowRight',
'SP_ArrowUp',
'SP_BrowserReload',
'SP_BrowserStop',
'SP_CommandLink',
'SP_ComputerIcon',
'SP_DesktopIcon',
'SP_DialogAbortButton',
'SP_DialogApplyButton',
'SP_DialogCancelButton',
'SP_DialogCloseButton',
'SP_DialogDiscardButton',
'SP_DialogHelpButton',
'SP_DialogIgnoreButton',
'SP_DialogNoButton',
'SP_DialogNoToAllButton',
'SP_DialogOkButton',
'SP_DialogOpenButton',
'SP_DialogResetButton',
'SP_DialogRetryButton',
'SP_DialogSaveAllButton',
'SP_DialogSaveButton',
'SP_DialogYesButton',
'SP_DialogYesToAllButton',
'SP_DirClosedIcon',
'SP_DirHomeIcon',
'SP_DirIcon',
'SP_DirLinkIcon',
'SP_DirLinkOpenIcon',
'SP_DirOpenIcon',
'SP_DockWidgetCloseButton',
'SP_DriveCDIcon',
'SP_DriveDVDIcon',
'SP_DriveFDIcon',
'SP_DriveHDIcon',
'SP_DriveNetIcon',
'SP_FileDialogBack',
'SP_FileDialogContentsView',
'SP_FileDialogDetailedView',
'SP_FileDialogEnd',
'SP_FileDialogInfoView',
'SP_FileDialogListView',
'SP_FileDialogNewFolder',
'SP_FileDialogStart',
'SP_FileDialogToParent',
'SP_FileIcon',
'SP_FileLinkIcon',
'SP_LineEditClearButton',
'SP_MediaPause',
'SP_MediaPlay',
'SP_MediaSeekBackward',
'SP_MediaSeekForward',
'SP_MediaSkipBackward',
'SP_MediaSkipForward',
'SP_MediaStop',
'SP_MediaVolume',
'SP_MediaVolumeMuted',
'SP_MessageBoxCritical',
'SP_MessageBoxInformation',
'SP_MessageBoxQuestion',
'SP_MessageBoxWarning',
'SP_RestoreDefaultsButton',
'SP_TitleBarCloseButton',
'SP_TitleBarContextHelpButton',
'SP_TitleBarMaxButton',
'SP_TitleBarMenuButton',
'SP_TitleBarMinButton',
'SP_TitleBarNormalButton',
'SP_TitleBarShadeButton',
'SP_TitleBarUnshadeButton',
'SP_ToolBarHorizontalExtensionButton',
'SP_ToolBarVerticalExtensionButton',
'SP_TrashIcon',
'SP_VistaShield',
]
layout = QGridLayout()
for n, name in enumerate(icons):
btn = QPushButton(name)
pixmapi = getattr(QStyle.StandardPixmap, name)
icon = self.style().standardIcon(pixmapi)
btn.setIcon(icon)
layout.addWidget(btn, int(n / 4), n % 4)
self.setLayout(layout)
app = QApplication([])
w = Window()
w.show()
app.exec()
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