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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 List Widget


To display several values in an easier and expandable format, you can use List Widget, which is an instance of the QListWidget class. List Widget displays several items that can not only be viewed, but can be edited and deleted, too. You can add or remove list items one at a time from the List Widget item, or collectively you can set list items by using its internal model.

Getting ready

Items in the list are instances of the QListWidgetItem class. The methods provided by QListWidget are shown in the following list:

  • insertItem(): This method inserts a new item with the supplied text into List Widget at the specified location.
  • insertItems(): This method inserts multiple items from the supplied list, starting at the specified location.
  • count(): This method returns the count of the number of items in the list.
  • takeItem(): This method removes and returns items from the specified row in List Widget.
  • currentItem(): This method returns the current item in the list.
  • setCurrentItem(): This...