My Journey To Learn PySide6 - Part 1

Beginning

A week ago I started to lean PySide6, in my previous post I mentioned but hasn’t been doing it because of my vacations, but now that I am back home I can resume my learning.

In my work computer/laptop I had no issues installing PySide6 or running scripts but in this computer (my main desktop computer) I had 4 different versions of Python and on top I also installed Conda (is kind of a manager for installing virtual environments with different versions of Python). So, I was having trouble running PySide6, specially the Hive Block Explorer script that I was talking about last post, it wouldn’t run at all.

I decided to uninstall every version of Python and keep Anaconda because I use it for running Stable Diffusion locally (but that’s for another topic).

Reinstalling Python Again

I went to the Python official website and downloaded the latest version of Python which was at that time the 3.12.1 version.

Install PySide6 which accordingly with the official website (Qt for Python - Qt Wiki) can be installed with pip install pyside6 , I install it that way without a virtual environment.

I proceed to run my Hive Block Explorer script but window does not appear. Up until now I haven’t fixed it because I am thinking in redoing all the script to actually get the block info and overall to be a complete Hive alternative to a website frontend.

Examples from the official website or from StackOverflow will run so my installation of PySide6 does work fine.

Choosing What to Build

I was unsure of what to build because the Hive Block Explorer seems like a bit complex with my current Python Skills, so I came up with a Calculator.

A Calculator only require only with the basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and speaking about the controls, I think buttons and labels will do it, but still not 100% sure if will require to use more type of controls, I will see in the making.

Wrapping up

I have to finish this post here and continue in another day because it took me too much time to finish this post. I will see you in the next one.