Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt5 (PySide2 Edition): The hands-on guide to making apps with Python
- Length: 720 pages
- Edition: 4
- Language: English
- Publication Date: 2020-06-25
- ISBN-10: B08BX2P1HJ
- Sales Rank: #959988 (See Top 100 Books)
Building desktop applications doesn’t have to be difficult. Using Python & Qt5 you can create fully functional desktop apps in minutes. This is the 4th Edition of Create GUI Applications, updated for 2020 & PySide2.
Starting from the very basics, this book takes you on a tour of the key features of PySide2 you can use to build real-life applications. Learn the fundamental building blocks of Qt applications — Widgets, Layouts & Signals and learn how Qt uses the event loop to handle and respond to user input. Design beautiful UIs with Qt Designer and customize the look and feel of your applications with Qt Style Sheets and custom widgets.
Use Qt’s MVC-like ModelViews framework to connect data sources to your widgets, including SQL databases, numpy and pandas data tables, to build-data driven application. Visualize data using matplotlib & PyQtGraph and connect with external data sources to build live dashboards. Learn how to use threads and processes to manage long-running tasks and communicate with external services. Parse data and visualize the output in logs and progress bars.
The book includes usability and architectural tips to help you build maintainable and usable PySide2 applications from the start. Finally, once your application is ready to be released, discover how to package it up into professional-quality installers, ready to ship.
The book includes
- 665 pages of hands-on PySide2 exercises
- 211 code examples to experiment with
- Support forum for all readers
- Includes 4 example apps
- Compatible with Python 3.4+
- Code free to reuse in your own projects
Martin Fitzpatrick has been teaching and using PySide2 for 8 years, helping thousands of developers bring their applications to life.
Introduction
1. A very brief history of the GUI
2. A bit about Qt
3. Thankyou
4. Copyright
Basic PySide2 Features
5. My first Application
6. Signals & Slots
7. Widgets
8. Layouts
9. Actions, Toolbars & Menus
10. Dialogs
11. Windows
12. Events
Qt Designer
13. Installing Qt Designer
14. Getting started with Qt Designer
15. The Qt Resource system
Theming
16. Styles
17. Palettes
18. Icons
19. Qt Style Sheets (QSS)
Model View Architecture
20. The Model View Architecture — Model View Controller
21. A simple Model View — a Todo List
22. Tabular data in ModelViews, with numpy & pandas
23. Querying SQL databases with Qt models
Further PySide2 Features
24. Extending Signals
25. Routing
26. Working with command-line arguments
27. System tray & macOS menus
28. Enums & the Qt Namespace
Custom Widgets
29. Bitmap Graphics in Qt
30. Creating Custom Widgets
Concurrent Execution
31. Introduction to Threads & Processes
32. Using the thread pool
33. Threading examples
34. Running external commands & processes
Plotting
35. Plotting with PyQtGraph
36. Plotting with Matplotlib
Packaging & Distribution
37. Packaging with fbs
Example applications
38. Mozzarella Ashbadger
39. Moonsweeper
Appendix A: Installing PySide2
40. Installation Windows
41. Installation macOS
42. Installation Linux (Ubuntu)
Appendix B: Translating C++ Examples to Python
43. The example code
44. Imports
45. int main(int argc, char *argv[])
46. C++ types
47. Signals
48. Syntax
49. Applying the process to your own code
Appendix C: PyQt5 and PySide2 — What’s the difference?
50. Background
51. Licensing
52. UI files
53. Converting UI files to Python
54. exec() or exec_()
55. Slots and Signals
56. Supporting both in libraries
57. QtPy
58. That’s really it
Appendix D: What next?
59. Get access to updates
60. DocumentationDonate to keep this site alive
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