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Mastering GUI Programming with Python

By : Alan D. Moore
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Book Image

Mastering GUI Programming with Python

5 (2)
By: Alan D. Moore

Overview of this book

PyQt5 has long been the most powerful and comprehensive GUI framework available for Python, yet there is a lack of cohesive resources available for Python programmers to learn how to use it. This book will be your comprehensive guide to exploring GUI development with PyQt5. You will get started with an introduction to PyQt5, before going on to develop stunning GUIs with modern features. You will learn how to build forms using QWidgets and delve into important aspects of GUI development such as layouts, size policies, and event-driven programming. Moving ahead, you’ll discover PyQt5’s most powerful features through chapters on audio-visual programming with QtMultimedia, database-driven software with QtSQL, and web browsing with QtWebEngine. Next, in-depth coverage of multithreading and asynchronous programming will help you run tasks asynchronously and build high-concurrency processes with ease. In later chapters, you’ll gain insights into QOpenGLWidget, along with mastering techniques for creating 2D graphics with QPainter. You’ll also explore PyQt on a Raspberry Pi and interface it with remote systems using QtNetwork. Finally, you will learn how to distribute your applications using setuptools and PyInstaller. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to develop robust GUI applications using PyQt.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Section 1: Deep Dive into PyQt
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Section 2: Working with External Resources
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Section 3: Unraveling Advanced Qt Implementations
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Using model-view widgets without SQL

Having used QSqlQueryModel in the last section, you might wonder whether this approach can be further generalized to just access tables directly and avoid having to write SQL queries altogether. You also might wonder if we can get around the read-only limitations of QSqlQueryModel. The answer to both questions is yes, thanks to QSqlTableModel and QSqlRelationalTableModels.

To see how these work, let's back up and start over with our application:

  1. Start with a fresh template copy, calling it coffee_list2.py. Add the import for QtSql and the database connection code from the first application. Now let's start building using table models. For simple situations where we want to create a model from a single database table, we can use QSqlTableModel:
self.reviews_model = qts.QSqlTableModel()
self.reviews_model.setTable('reviews&apos...