ps-ui-backpack

PySide UI Utilities

Some shared PySide2 UI utilities for Maya/Houdini/Nuke Qt Tools

Compatibility

• Current release: 1.0.8
• Supported Python versions: 3.9 to 3.15

Installation

pip install pyside-ui-backpack

Demos

Run the manual UI demo applications:

python -m pyside_ui_backpack.demo.demo_push_button_pyside6
python -m pyside_ui_backpack.demo.demo_css_button_pyside6
python -m pyside_ui_backpack.demo.demo_dialogs_pyside6
python -m pyside_ui_backpack.demo.demo_wait_cursor_pyside6

Usage

Widgets

from pyside_ui_backpack import PushButton, Colors

PushButton(parent, 'qt_name', 'Click Me' , (120, 21) , Colors.BLUE)

Dialogs

from pyside_ui_backpack import dialogs

dialogs.inform_dialog(parent, 'message', 'title')
dialogs.inform_dialog_small(parent, 'message', 'title')
dialogs.warning_dialog(parent, 'error_message', 'title')
dialogs.warning_dialog_small(parent, 'error_message', 'title')

CSS

from pyside_ui_backpack import style_push_button, Colors

# style a button widget
button = QPushButton(main_window)
style_push_button(main_window, button, Colors.BLUE)

Colors

Colors.py contains a list of colors

from pyside_ui_backpack import Colors

Colors.DISABLED Colors.BLUE, Colors.RED, Colors.GREEN, Colors.YELLOW, ...
Colors.DARK_BLUE, Colors.DARK_RED, Colors.DARK_GREEN, Colors.DARK_YELLOW, ...
Colors.BG_BLUE, Colors.BG_RED, Colors.BG_GREEN, Colors.BG_YELLOW, ...

Utils

Wait Cursor decorator

from pyside_ui_backpack import wait_cursor

@wait_cursor
def long_running_function():
    pass

Changelog (Latest)

• 1.0.8 (03/2026)
• Package version bumped to 1.0.8.
• Python support updated to 3.9 through 3.15.
• Compatibility and typing improvements for PySide2/PySide6 APIs.
• Demo scripts moved to pyside_ui_backpack/demo and automated tests expanded.
• README examples corrected and aligned with current package imports.

Future Update Note

In a future release, support for PySide2 and Python 3.9/3.10 will be dropped.