I've created a simple form (without any functionality) which includes 2 widgets (a Push button and a LineEdit) first by manual coding then by using Qt Designer. I don't understand why Qt Designer creates so many extra codes that seem to be useless (to me) and makes it so complicated!. This is the code i've written manually:
import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QMainWindow,QPushButton,QApplication, QLineEdit
class Example(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.initUI()
def initUI(self):
btn1 = QPushButton('Button1', self)
btn1.move(30,50)
btn1.resize(btn1.sizeHint())
le = QLineEdit(self)
le.move(100,100)
self.setGeometry(300,300,290,150)
self.setWindowTitle('Event Sender')
self.show()
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
ex = Example()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
And this is the output of Qt Designer UI file (as a python file)
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
class Ui_MainWindow(object):
def setupUi(self, MainWindow):
MainWindow.setObjectName("MainWindow")
MainWindow.resize(417, 297)
self.centralwidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(MainWindow)
self.centralwidget.setObjectName("centralwidget")
self.pushButton = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
self.pushButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(60, 130, 75, 23))
self.pushButton.setObjectName("pushButton")
self.lineEdit = QtWidgets.QLineEdit(self.centralwidget)
self.lineEdit.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(210, 180, 113, 20))
self.lineEdit.setObjectName("lineEdit")
MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget)
self.menubar = QtWidgets.QMenuBar(MainWindow)
self.menubar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 417, 20))
self.menubar.setObjectName("menubar")
MainWindow.setMenuBar(self.menubar)
self.statusbar = QtWidgets.QStatusBar(MainWindow)
self.statusbar.setObjectName("statusbar")
MainWindow.setStatusBar(self.statusbar)
self.retranslateUi(MainWindow)
QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(MainWindow)
def retranslateUi(self, MainWindow):
_translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate
MainWindow.setWindowTitle(_translate("MainWindow", "Event Sender"))
self.pushButton.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "Button1"))
if __name__ == "__main__":
import sys
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
MainWindow = QtWidgets.QMainWindow()
ui = Ui_MainWindow()
ui.setupUi(MainWindow)
MainWindow.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
Here are my Questions:
Can some one please explain to me what is going on with the Qt Designer created file? It seems to me that it creates a seperate class just for the UI and then creates an instance of the
QMainWindowclass and then modifies this instance within theUi_MainWindow()created instance. But in my code, i directly created a MainWindow class which inherits from QMainWindow and then set the UI up within that classAlso what's the point of passing our
QMainWindowinstance here??:self.centralwidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(MainWindow)Why notself.centralwidget = QtWidgets.QWidget()?What is the point of these many extra code?!