Building a calendar application GUI

It's time to put what we've learned into action and actually build a simple, functional GUI. Our goal is to build a simple calendar application that looks like this:

Our interface won't be functional yet; for now, we'll just focus on getting the components created and laid out as shown in the screenshot. We'll do this two ways: once using code only, and a second time using Qt Designer.

Either of these methods is valid and work fine, though as you'll see, each has advantages and disadvantages.

Building the GUI in code

Create a new file called calendar_form.py by copying the application template from Chapter 1, Getting Started with PyQt.

Then we'll configure...