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Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook

By : B. M. Harwani
Book Image

Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook

By: B. M. Harwani

Overview of this book

PyQt is one of the best cross-platform interface toolkits currently available; it's stable, mature, and completely native. If you want control over all aspects of UI elements, PyQt is what you need. This book will guide you through every concept necessary to create fully functional GUI applications using PyQt, with only a few lines of code. As you expand your GUI using more widgets, you will cover networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance its functionality. Next, the book guides you in using Qt Designer to design user interfaces and implementing and testing dialogs, events, the clipboard, and drag and drop functionality to customize your GUI. You will learn a variety of topics, such as look and feel customization, GUI animation, graphics rendering, implementing Google Maps, and more. Lastly, the book takes you through how Qt5 can help you to create cross-platform apps that are compatible with Android and iOS. You will be able to develop functional and appealing software using PyQt through interesting and fun recipes that will expand your knowledge of GUIs
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Performing single selection from a list


This recipe will display a dialog box, showing a list of items, allowing the user to select one of them. The name of the selected item will be displayed via another dialog box.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will be making use of the following methods:

  • dialogCreateAlert(): This method is used to display a message via the dialog box
  • dialogSetItems(): This method is used to define the array of items to be displayed in the list
  • dialogGetResponse(): This method is used to get a response from the user

Take a look at the following steps:

  1. First type the following code in the Python script demoSingleSelection.py, in the current folder of your computer:
import android
app = android.Android()
app.dialogCreateAlert("Select your food item")
app.dialogSetItems(['Pizza', 'Burger', 'Hot Dog'])
app.dialogShow()
response = app.dialogGetResponse().result
selectedResult=response["item"]
if selectedResult==0:
    app.dialogCreateAlert("You have selected Pizza")
elif selectedResult...