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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 Form Layout


Form Layout is considered to be the most demanding layout in almost all applications. This two-column layout is required when displaying products, services, and so on, as well as in accepting feedback or other information from users or customers.

Getting ready

The form layout arranges the widgets in a two-column format. Like a sign-up form of any site or any order form, where the form is divided into two columns, the column on the left shows labels or text and the column on the right shows empty textboxes.  Similarly, the form layout arranges the widgets in the left and right columns. Let's understand the concept of Form Layout using an application.

How to do it...

In this application, we will make two columns, one for displaying messages and the other column for accepting input from the user. Besides two pairs of Label and Line Edit widgets for taking input from the user, the application will have two buttons that will also be arranged in the form layout. Here are the steps...