Python PyQt5 | Employee Management System: How I Created The UI Part 1

Python PyQt5 is a powerful library for creating desktop applications with graphical user interfaces. In this article, I will walk you through how I created the UI for an Employee Management System using PyQt5.

Getting Started with PyQt5

Before we dive into the details of creating the UI for the Employee Management System, you will need to have PyQt5 installed on your machine. You can install it using pip:

pip install PyQt5

Creating the Main Window

The first step in creating the UI for our Employee Management System is to create the main window. We can do this by creating a new instance of the QMainWindow class:

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow

app = QApplication(sys.argv)

window = QMainWindow()
window.setWindowTitle('Employee Management System')
window.show()

sys.exit(app.exec_())

Running this code will create a basic main window for our application with the title “Employee Management System”.

Adding Widgets to the Main Window

Now that we have created the main window, we can start adding widgets to it. For example, we can add a QLabel to display a welcome message, a QPushButton to add new employees, and a QTableWidget to display a list of employees:

# Add a QLabel
label = QLabel('Welcome to Employee Management System', window)
label.move(50, 50)

# Add a QPushButton
button = QPushButton('Add Employee', window)
button.move(50, 100)

# Add a QTableWidget
table = QTableWidget(window)
table.move(50, 150)
table.resize(400, 200)

window.show()

Now our main window will display a welcome message, a button to add new employees, and a table to display the list of employees.

Conclusion

In this article, we have covered the basics of creating the UI for an Employee Management System using Python PyQt5. In the next part, we will dive deeper into creating a more complex and functional UI for our application.