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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

Using classes in GUI


The data received from the user through the GUI can be directly processed by making use of simple variables, and the processed data can be displayed through variables only. But to keep the data in a structured format and get the benefits of OOP, we will learn to keep data in the form of classes. That is, the data accessed by the user through the GUI can be assigned to the class variables, processed, and displayed through class methods.

Let's create an application that will prompt the user to enter a name and, on clicking the push button after entering a name, the application will display a hello message along with the entered name. The name entered by the user will be assigned to a class variable and the hello message will also be generated by invoking the class method of the class.

How to do it...

The focus of this recipe is to understand how the data entered by the user is assigned to the class variable, and how the message displayed can be accessed via class methods...