Create Simple GUI Applications, with Python & Qt5 The hands-on guide to building desktop apps with Python.

✍ Scribed by Martin Fitzpatrick

• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
Book format
Qt and PyQt
Python 3
Getting Started
Installation Windows
PyQt5 for Python 3
PyQt5 for Python 2.7
Installation Mac
Installation Linux (Ubuntu)
Basic Qt Features
My first Window
Signals, Slots, Events
Actions, Toolbars and Menus
Widgets
Layouts
Dialogs
Qt Creator
Creating a .ui file
Laying out your Main Window
Using your generated .ui file
Adding application logic
Extended Signals
Modifying Signal Data
Custom Signals
QPainter and Bitmap Graphics
QPainter
Drawing primitives
A bit of fun with QPainter
Creating Custom Widgets
Getting started
paintEvent
Positioning
Updating the display
Drawing the bar
Customising the Bar
Adding the QAbstractSlider Interface
Updating from the Meter display
The final code
The Model View Architecture
Model View Controller
The Model View
A simple Model View — a Todo List
A persistent data store
Multithreading
Preparation
The dumb approach
Threads and Processes
QRunnable and QThreadPool
Extended Runners
Thread IO
QRunnable Examples
Example PyQt5 Applications
Mozzarella Ashbadger
Moonsweeper
Packaging PyQt Applications
fbs: fman Build System
What’s next?
The video course
Resources
Tutorials
Documentation
Icon sets
Source code
Copyright