#🔒 PySide6 QMainWindow doesn't show up?
fickle crane
atomic garden
@viscid otter I've recovered your message
Hi, lets start off by letting you know that I'm very new to Python.
I'm currently trying to make my little application to use QT with PySide6 instead of Tkinter, but I'm a bit confused about why the application window isn't showing up as it should but hovering over the app icon on the taskbar shows the UI (see screenshot).
I've googled a bit and there seems to be people with the same issue that got their stuff solved, but I'm not sure I quite understand the solutions popping up (maybe because I'm still not very experienced?)
So I figured I may as well see if there is any people on Discord that may be able to either explain or help!
I've done the basic design of the UI how I want it with QTDesigner.
I set up my py files like this for now
"main.py",
"window.py",
"window_ui.py",
"window.ui"
I've attached the files as well in case it would be helpful. (Ignore all the unnecessary imports, they'll be removed later)
But the basics of it is that launching the main.py script doesnt make the app window pop up as stated earlier.
Any help is appreciated, if more information is needed then tell me what you need and i'll try provide.
you can't share files here unfortunately
atomic garden
main.py: <https://paste.pythondiscord.com/NCYQ>
window.py: <https://paste.python...
I'm not really familair with working with designer ui files unfortunately. Can you show what the UI looks like?
As a pyqt dev, I always recommend staying far away from designer
viscid otter
I see.
atomic garden
doing the ui to py conversion process just makes such an absolute mess of code
I know it's not really helpful advice in the moment, but I'd really recommend trying to code it from scratch
also on a related note, the very first thing I built in qt (it was with designer, haha) was a spritesheet creator
basically the opposite of what you have here
just thought that was funny
viscid otter
I can see why haha, no worries!
I'll keep waiting for some answers, if I don't get any within a day I'll just resort to spend a day learning how to do it from the ground up.
viscid otter
also on a related note, the very first thing I built in qt (it was with designer...
haha that's funny!
i was frustrated there was no batch extractor tool for it that worked well so i took matter into my own hands and wrote a simple script for it at first haha, then some wiki makers wanted it to have a gui and gif creation for their games.
atomic garden
I can see why haha, no worries!
I'll keep waiting for some answers, if I don't g...
one small thing to try that looks out of place
def main():
app = QApplication()
window = AppWindow()
window.show()
app.exec()
I haven't used PySide6 yet, but previous versions require an argument in QApplication
try putting an empty list there
app = QApplication([])
Ahh neat! Are you in game dev?
atomic garden
```py
app = QApplication([])
```
oh nevermind, only PyQt requires the list
PySide doesn't
viscid otter
Not exactly, I've worked on some fnf mods here and there for learning purposes, I like learning a bit about most things.
and yeah the list isnt required
atomic garden
MainWindow.setWindowOpacity(0.000000000000000)
this line caught my eye too
try commenting that out
viscid otter
oh wtf thats...
atomic garden
seems like you might be making an invisible window...
atomic garden
lol glad that was it!
Dug up my old sprite tool though for a laugh. Yours looks a lot better
viscid otter
haha thats kinda what my tkinter variant looks like
atomic garden
This was 5+ years ago though. I've come a long way since then 😉
viscid otter
I bet! Haha!
Thanks again, despite me being slightly embarrassed now, but hey sometimes you miss simple stuff due to sheer frustration!
atomic garden
Np! Glad it's all working now
