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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)

Table view


In the preceding sections, we discussed various model classes. Now, we will look at how to present the data to the users using the QTableView widget. The data source for the QTableView is provided by any of the model classes. The table view is the most used view format as this represents a virtual representation of 2D SQL table structure. We will look at the code first, then discuss its functionality:

import sys
from PySide.QtGui import *
from PySide.QtCore import *
from PySide.QtSql import *

def initializeModel(model):
    model.setTable("employee")

    model.setEditStrategy(QSqlTableModel.OnManualSubmit)
    model.select()

    model.setHeaderData(0, Qt.Horizontal, "ID")
    model.setHeaderData(1, Qt.Horizontal, "First Name")
    model.setHeaderData(2, Qt.Horizontal, "Last Name")
    model.setHeaderData(3, Qt.Horizontal, "Age")
    model.setHeaderData(4, Qt.Horizontal, "Gender")
    model.setHeaderData(5, Qt.Horizontal, "Income")

def createView(title, model):
    view = QTableView...