Tool button is a PyQt5 widget which looks like the buttons used in Toolbar. This button contains icon which gives an idea about its utility. For adding this button in application QToolButton class is used.
Example:
A window having a Tool button with an exit icon. When the user clicks this button the application gets closed.
import sys from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets class Ui_MainWindow(object): def setupUi(self, MainWindow): MainWindow.resize(506, 312) self.centralwidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(MainWindow) self.centralwidget.setObjectName("centralwidget") self.toolButton = QtWidgets.QToolButton(self.centralwidget) self.toolButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(220, 120, 41, 41)) icon = QtGui.QIcon() icon.addPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap("exiticon.png [exact location of image]"), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off) # adding icon to the toolbutton self.toolButton.setIcon(icon) MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget) self.retranslateUi(MainWindow) QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(MainWindow) # adding signal and slot self.toolButton.clicked.connect(self.exitapp) def retranslateUi(self, MainWindow): _translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate MainWindow.setWindowTitle(_translate("MainWindow", "MainWindow")) # For closing the application def exitapp(self): sys.exit() if __name__ == "__main__": app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv) MainWindow = QtWidgets.QMainWindow() ui = Ui_MainWindow() ui.setupUi(MainWindow) MainWindow.show() sys.exit(app.exec_()) |
Output:
When user clicks this button, application get closed.
