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_()) |
Output:
The gif loading screen.
