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A Guide to PyQt6 for Beginners

Creating a Camera GUI

Explore creating a camera GUI application using PyQt6, focusing on multi-window management with QMdiArea. Understand how to list available cameras, select one for viewing, and capture images with keyboard controls. This lesson guides you through setting up subwindows, handling camera functions, and managing media capture within a Python GUI environment.

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The camera GUI

Note: This project has been developed with PyQt5 since PyQt6 doesn't support the QMultimedia module, which is essential for this project.

There are several approaches to handling interfaces with numerous windows when developing GUIs. Although you could utilize tabbed or stacked widgets, only one window can be shown at once using these techniques. Utilizing dock widgets and enabling windows to be floatable or utilized as secondary windows is an additional choice. You will learn how to set up a multi-window GUI for this project using the QMdiArea class. The area for showing multiple-document interface (MDI) windows is provided by QMdiArea ...