In this article we will see how we can create a days from date calculator in PyQt5, days from date calculator is used to add or subtract the days from the selected date to get the new date. This calculator is used to get the exact date which would come after given number of days. Below is how the calculator will like
👁 Image PyQt5 is cross-platform GUI toolkit, a set of python bindings for Qt v5. One can develop an interactive desktop application with so much ease because of the tools and simplicity provided by this library. Below is the command to install the PyQt5
pip install PyQt5
GUI Implementation Steps :
1. Create a heading label that display the calculator name
2. Create label to show user to select the date
3. Create a QCalendarWidget object for user to select the date
4. Create a label and spin box for telling user to enter days and get the days
5. Create two push buttons for adding and subtracting the days
6. Create a label to show the calculated date
Back-End Implementation :
1. Add action to both the push button
2. Inside the add push button action get the days and call the calculate method and pass days as argument
3. Inside the subtract push button action get the days and make the days negative and call the calculate method and pass days as argument
4. Inside the calculate method get the selected date of the calendar
5. Add the passed days to the selected date
6. Show the new date with the help of result label
