Building a PyQt6 Icon Generator App with Dicebear Part 1

In this tutorial, we will be building a PyQt6 application that generates unique and customizable icons using the Dicebear avatar generator library. This will be a multi-part series, with this first part focusing on setting up the project and creating the basic user interface.

Setting Up the Project

First, make sure you have PyQt6 installed in your Python environment. You can install it using pip:


pip install PyQt6


Next, you will need to install the Dicebear library. You can install it using npm:


npm install @dicebear/avatars


Creating the User Interface

Now that our project is set up, let’s create the basic user interface for our icon generator app. We will have a simple window with a button to generate a new icon and a preview area to display the generated icon. Here is the HTML markup for our UI:


<div id="app">
<h3>Icon Generator</h3>
<button id="generateIconButton">Generate Icon</button>
<div id="iconPreview"></div>
</div>


Next, we will need to write some CSS to style our UI:


#app {
text-align: center;
padding: 20px;
}

#generateIconButton {
margin-bottom: 10px;
}

#iconPreview {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
margin: 0 auto;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}


That’s it for part 1 of our tutorial. In the next part, we will write the Python code to generate icons using the Dicebear library and update the preview area with the generated icon. Stay tuned!