PyQt5 is a GUI toolkit which can be used to develop GUI application in Python. It provides many modules that can help to build various components of the GUI application.
Installation:
pip install PyQt5
Gif Link: https://loading.io/
Approach:
- Import module
- Create window and labels
- Load GIF
- Start GIF using start()
- Add mechanism to stop GIF using stop()
- Execute code
Example:
Python3
import sys from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets from PyQt5.QtGui import QMovie from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt class LoadingGif( object ): def mainUI( self , FrontWindow): FrontWindow.setObjectName( "FTwindow" ) FrontWindow.resize( 320 , 300 ) self .centralwidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(FrontWindow) self .centralwidget.setObjectName( "main-widget" ) # Label Create self .label = QtWidgets.QLabel( self .centralwidget) self .label.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect( 25 , 25 , 200 , 200 )) self .label.setMinimumSize(QtCore.QSize( 250 , 250 )) self .label.setMaximumSize(QtCore.QSize( 250 , 250 )) self .label.setObjectName( "lb1" ) FrontWindow.setCentralWidget( self .centralwidget) # Loading the GIF self .movie = QMovie( "loader.gif" ) self .label.setMovie( self .movie) self .startAnimation() # Start Animation def startAnimation( self ): self .movie.start() # Stop Animation(According to need) def stopAnimation( self ): self .movie.stop() app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv) window = QtWidgets.QMainWindow() demo = LoadingGif() demo.mainUI(window) window.show() sys.exit(app.exec_()) |
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