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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 the Font Combo Box widget


The Font Combo Box widget, as the name suggests, displays a list of font styles to choose from. The chosen font style can be applied to the desired content if required.

Getting ready

To understand the workings of the Font Combo Box widget practically, let's create a recipe. This recipe will display a Font Combo Box widget and a Text Edit widget. The user will be able to type the desired content in the Text Edit widget. After typing the text in the Text Edit widget, when the user selects any font style from the Font Combo Box widget, the selected font will be applied to the content typed into the Text Edit widget.

How to do it…

Here are the steps to display an active Font Combo Box widget and to apply the selected font to the text written in the Text Edit widget:

  1. Create a new application of the Dialog without Buttons template and drag two Label widgets, a Font Combo Box widget, and a Text Edit widget from the Widget box and drop them onto the form.
  2. Set the text property...