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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

Creating a dockable and floatable sign-in form


In this recipe, we will learn to create a sign-in form that will ask for the email address and password of the user for authentication. This sign-in form is different from the usual sign-in form, in the sense that it is a dockable form. That is, you can dock this sign-in form to any of the four sides of the window—top, left, right, and bottom and can even use it as a floatable form. This dockablesign-in formwill be created using theDockwidget, so let's get a quick idea about theDockwidget.

Getting ready

To create a detachable set of widgets or tools, you need a Dock widget. A Dock widget is created with the QDockWidget class and is a container that has a title bar and buttons at the top to size it. The Dock widget, which contains a collection of widgets or tools, can be closed, docked in the dock area, or floated and placed anywhere on the desktop. The Dock widget can be docked in different dock areas, such as LeftDockWidgetArea, RightDockWidgetArea...