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Pyside GUI Application Development- Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Venkateshwaran Loganathan, Gopinath Jaganmohan
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Pyside GUI Application Development- Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Venkateshwaran Loganathan, Gopinath Jaganmohan

Overview of this book

Elegantly-built GUI applications are always a massive hit among users. PySide is an open source software project that provides Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform UI framework. Combining the power of Qt and Python, PySide provides easy access to the Qt framework for Python developers and also acts as an excellent rapid application development platform. This book will take you through everything you need to know to develop UI applications. You will learn about installing and building PySide in various major operating systems as well as the basics of GUI programming. The book will then move on to discuss event management, signals and slots, and the widgets and dialogs available with PySide. Database interaction and manipulation is also covered. By the end of this book, you will be able to program GUI applications efficiently and master how to develop your own applications and how to run them across platforms.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating a simple window


The QWidget is the base class for all the user interface classes. A widget can be a top-level widget or a child widget contained in a top-level or parent widget. Now, let's create a top-level window using QWidget. The constructor of the QWidget class takes two optional parameters, parent and flags. The parent parameter can be a QWidget object and the flags parameter can be a combination of PySide.QtCore.Qt.WindowFlags, as follows:

# Import required modules
import sys, time
from PySide.QtGui import *
from PySide.QtCore import *

# Our main window class
class SampleWindow(QWidget):
    # Constructor function
    def __init__(self):
        super(SampleWindow,self).__init__()

        self.initGUI()


    def initGUI(self):
        self.setWindowTitle("Sample Window")
        self.setGeometry(300, 300, 200, 150)
        self.setMinimumHeight(100)
        self.setMinimumWidth(250)
        self.setMaximumHeight(200)
        self.setMaximumWidth(800)
        self.show(...