By tvcsop
Greeting! Windows 10, Python11, Qt Designer application in virtual environment. I want to start it but I can’t find it!? Can anyone help? Thanks.
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Hey @tvcsop,
First, to upload the picture, you need to use this:

As for the application, I would assume you want to do this locally as DigitalOcean does not offer Windows 10 by default. Here is a step-by-step guide to doing so.
PyQt5-tools
package includes Qt Designer. It is not included in the base PyQt5 package. Here’s how to install it:In your terminal (Command Prompt on Windows, Terminal on macOS/Linux), activate your virtual environment and run:
pip install pyqt5-tools
python -c "import site; print(site.getsitepackages())"
This will output a list of paths. Look for the path that ends in “site-packages”.
Locate Qt Designer: In the site-packages directory, find the pyqt5_tools
directory. Inside this directory, you will find a “Qt/bin” directory. The Qt Designer executable is named designer.exe
on Windows, and should be located in this “bin” directory.
Launch Qt Designer: You can launch Qt Designer by double-clicking on the designer.exe
file in File Explorer. If you want to launch it directly from the command line, navigate to the directory where the designer.exe
file is located using the cd
command, and then type ./designer.exe
to run it.
cd <path-to-pyqt5_tools>/Qt/bin
./designer.exe
Replace <path-to-pyqt5_tools>
with the path you found in step 2. If your path contains spaces, enclose it in quotes.
These steps assume that you’re using Windows, as indicated in your question. The exact details might be slightly different on other operating systems. If you’re having trouble, let me know!
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