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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 Progress Bar widget


The Progress Bar widget is very useful in representing the progress of any task. Whether it is downloading a file from a server, virus scanning on a machine, or some other critical task, the Progress Bar widget helps inform the user of the percentage of the task that is done and the percentage that is pending. As the task completes, the Progress Bar widget keeps updating, indicating progress in the task.

Getting ready

To understand how the progress bar is updated to show the progress of any task, let's create a recipe. This recipe will display a Progress Bar widget, indicating the total time required to download a file. When the user clicks the push button to begin downloading the file, the Progress Bar widget will update from 0% to 100% gradually; that is, the progress bar will update as the file is being downloaded. The Progress Bar widget will show 100% when the file is completely downloaded.

How to do it…

Initially, the Progress Bar widget is at 0% and to make...