🔒 Need help with PyQt6

[trail charm]

I just started using PyQt6, and im struggling with certain parts of it :

• for my custom window class, should I extend QWidget or QMainWindow ?
• how should I make a custom "frame" widget (what class should it extend) ? I'd like it to be stylesheet-able, like a button, add a layout, child widgets, etc ...
• concerning layouts, how do I make a widget dimensions folllow the window's dimensions (only one at a time for exemple, stick to the sides) ?
• How do I make the previously stated "frame" widget follow the window's dimensions ? I'd like to make a layout for a borderless window with a top bar, and a frame for the window content (or is there a better way to do it ?)

I have a few more questions but I think that's good enough for now

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[dusty geyser]

You could inherit from either QWidget or QMainWindow depending on the facilities you need from each. QWidget is more generic while QMainWindow accounts for things typical to a main window (like toolbars, status bars, and what not).

Your widgets should follow your layout's dimensions as long as they're part of that layout and have the appropriate size policy. As long as the layout is applied to the window/widget, it should follow that widget's dimensions.

(and yes, that is generally the way this sort of layout is done, see this PythonGUIs article for reference)

[trail charm]

For the moment im using a QPushButton to make my frame, and a stylesheet to make the different states identical, is there a better way to do it ? (Probably ig)

[dusty geyser]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by a "frame" but for this sort of thing you can probably just use a standard QWidget and style that accordingly.

[trail charm]

like a rectangle I can apply a style to, and put things in

[dusty geyser]

Ah, then yeah, use a widget for that.

[trail charm]

Ok, I probably made a mistake when I tried to apply a style sheet to it, becaues it wasn't showing anything

[dusty geyser]

QWidgets can be styled. Although sometimes, if you're styling the background, you might need to specify an additional attribute: widget.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_StyledBackground, True)

!paste If you're trying to style something else and it doesn't work, feel free to send an example.

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[trail charm]

actually, one question I had is about styling button states :
I tried to do the following:

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[trail charm]

Button {background-color: rgba(16, 16, 19, 255);}
Button:hover {background-color: rgba(189, 89, 89, 255);}
Button:pressed {background-color: rgba(174, 174, 174, 255);}

but it wouldn't work unless I put a border thing in it :

CloseButton {
background-color: rgba(16, 16, 19, 255);
border: none;
}
CloseButton:hover {background-color: rgba(189, 89, 89, 255);}
CloseButton:pressed {background-color: rgba(174, 174, 174, 255);}

the hovered state would just be the default style

[dusty geyser]

I'm unable to reproduce that one, whether there is a border or not doesn't seem to affect anything on my end (also, I'll assume you didn't specify the # at the start of the object names due to discord's markdown, otherwise, that should be there)

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