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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 database table


In this recipe, we will be learning to create a database table. The user will be prompted to specify the database name, followed by the table name that is to be created. The recipe enables you to enter column names and their data types. Upon clicking the push button, the table with the defined columns will be created in the specified database.

How to do it…

Here are the steps to create a GUI that enables the user to enter all the information for the database table to be created. Using this GUI, the user can specify the database name, column names, and choose column types too:

  1. Let's create an application based on the Dialog without Buttons template.
  2. Add five QLabel, three QLineEdit, one QComboBox, and two QPushButton widgets to the form by dragging and dropping five Label, three Line Edit, one Combo Box, and two Push Button widgets on the form.
  3. Set the text property of the first four Label widgets to Enter database name, Enter table name, Column Name, and Data Type.
  4. Delete...