Designer

There is a Scripts/pyqt6-tools.exe designer.exe entry point that will help fill out PYQTDESIGNERPATH from either command line arguments or a .env file. Unknown arguments are passed through to the original Qt Designer program.

Usage: pyqt6-tools designer [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -p, --widget-path DIRECTORY     Paths to be combined with PYQTDESIGNERPATH
  --example-widget-path           Include the path for the pyqt6-tools example
                                  button (c:\users\sda\testenv\lib\site-
                                  packages\pyqt6_plugins)

  --designer-help                 Pass through to get Designer's --help
  --test-exception-dialog         Raise an exception to check the exception
                                  dialog functionality.

  --qt-debug-plugins / --no-qt-debug-plugins
                                  Set QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

If you want to view the generated code from within Designer, you can run Scripts/pyqt6-tools.exe installuic and it will copy pyuic6.exe such that Designer will use it and show you generated Python code. Note that this will enable viewing using the C++ menu item while the Python menu item will be broken. Without having made this adjustment, the C++ option shows C++ code while the Python option shows PySide2 code. pyqt6 must already be installed or this script will be unable to find the original pyuic6.exe to copy.

In addition to the standard features of the official Designer plugin, this provides an exception dialog for your widget’s Python code. Otherwise Designer in Windows silently crashes on Python exceptions.

QML Plugin

The QML plugin is also included. In the future a tool may be provided to handle copying of the plugin to each directory where it is needed. For now this must be done manually.

site-packages/pyqt6_tools/Qt/bin/plugins/pyqt6qmlplugin.dll

QML Scene

Usage: pyqt6-tools qmlscene [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -p, --qml2-import-path DIRECTORY
                                  Paths to be combined with QML2_IMPORT_PATH
  --qmlscene-help                 Pass through to get QML scene's --help
  --qt-debug-plugins / --no-qt-debug-plugins
                                  Set QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1
  --run-qml-example               Run the pyqt6-tools QML example
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

QML Test Runner

Usage: pyqt6-tools qmltestrunner [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -p, --qml2-import-path DIRECTORY
                                  Paths to be combined with QML2_IMPORT_PATH
  --qmltestrunner-help            Pass through to get QML test runner's --help
  --qt-debug-plugins / --no-qt-debug-plugins
                                  Set QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1
  --test-qml-example              Test the pyqt6-tools QML example
  --help                          Show this message and exit.