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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 Vertical Layout


Vertical Layout arranges the selected widgets vertically, in a column one below the other. In the following application, you will learn the process of laying widgets in a vertical layout.

How to do it...

In this application, we will prompt the user to enter a name and email address. The labels and textboxes for entering names and email addresses, along with the submit button, will be arranged vertically one below the other via Vertical Layout. Here are the steps to create the application:

  1. Launch Qt Designer and create an application based on the Dialog without Buttons template, then add two QLabel, two QlineEdit, and one QPushButton widget to the form by dragging and dropping two Label, two Line Edit, and one Push Button widget onto the form.
  2. Set the text property of the two Label widgets to Name and Email Address.
  3. Set the text property of the Push Button widget to Submit. Because the purpose of this application is to understand the layout and nothing else, we won't be setting...