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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

Adding items into List Widget


Although you can add items to the List Widget item manually through Property Editor, sometimes you need to add items to the List Widget item dynamically through code. Let's create an application that explains the process of adding items to List Widget.

In this application, you will use Label, Line Edit, Push Button, and List Widget. The List Widget item will be empty initially, and the user is asked to enter desired food items into Line Edit and select an Add to List button. The entered food item will then be added to the List Widget item. All subsequent food items will be added below the previous entry.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to know how items can be added to the List Widget item:

  1. We will begin by creating a new application based on the Dialog without Buttons template and dragging and dropping Label, Line Edit, Push Button, and List Widget onto the form.
  2. Set the text property of the Label and Push Button widgets to Your favourite food item and...