PyQt - QScrollBar Widget

A scrollbar control enables the user to access parts of the document that is outside the viewable area. It provides visual indicator to the current position. It has a slider by which a value between a preset range is set in analogous fashion. This value is usually correlated to bring a hidden data inside the viewport.

The scrollbar control has four controls −

A slider Two Scroll arrows Page control

Following signals of QScrollBar class are frequently used −

Example

In the following example, three scroll bars are placed to control RGB values of font color for the text displayed in a label. The complete code is as follows −

import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtCore import *

class Example(QWidget):

   def __init__(self):
      super(Example, self).__init__()
      self.initUI()
		
   def initUI(self):
      vbox = QVBoxLayout(self)
      vbox.addLayout(box)
      self.setLayout(vbox)
      hbox = QHBoxLayout()
      self.l1 = QLabel("Drag scrollbar sliders to change color")
      self.l1.setFont(QFont("Arial",16))
		
      hbox.addWidget(self.l1)
      self.s1 = QScrollBar()
      self.s1.setMaximum(255)
		
      self.s1.sliderMoved.connect(self.sliderval)
      self.s2 = QScrollBar()
      self.s2.setMaximum(255)
      self.s2.sliderMoved.connect(self.sliderval)
		
      self.s3 = QScrollBar()
      self.s3.setMaximum(255)
      self.s3.sliderMoved.connect(self.sliderval)
		
      hbox.addWidget(self.s1)
      hbox.addWidget(self.s2)
      hbox.addWidget(self.s3)
		
      self.setGeometry(300, 300, 300, 200)
      self.setWindowTitle('QSplitter demo')
      self.show()
		
   def sliderval(self):
      print self.s1.value(),self.s2.value(), self.s3.value()
      palette = QPalette()
      c = QColor(self.s1.value(),self.s2.value(), self.s3.value(),255)
      palette.setColor(QPalette.Foreground,c)
      self.l1.setPalette(palette)
		
def main():
   app = QApplication(sys.argv)
   ex = Example()
   sys.exit(app.exec_())
	
if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

The above code produces the following output −