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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)

Centering the window on the screen


The windowed applications based on type and functionality get displayed in the center for main applications, top right for notifications, and as an icon in the status bar of the screen. It is best practice for any main GUI application to display the window centered on the screen. There are two advantages of doing this. The first is to get the attention of the user, and the other is to adjust to different display formats of the various monitor screens.

There is no straightforward method to center the window by calling a predefined function of some class. Therefore, we write our own method, called center, to position the window central to any screen. This method takes the object that it is calling and centers it with respect to the screen that it is displayed on:

    def center(self):
        """ Function to center the application
        """
        qRect = self.frameGeometry()
        centerPoint = QDesktopWidget().availableGeometry().center()
        qRect...