Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6 (PySide6 Edition): The hands-on guide to making apps with Python
- Length: 812 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Independently published
- Publication Date: 2022-05-23
- ISBN-10: B0B1JL1CH9
- ISBN-13: 9798831499087
- Sales Rank: #1153041 (See Top 100 Books)
Building desktop applications doesn’t have to be difficult. Using Python & Qt6 you can create fully functional desktop apps in minutes. Starting from the very basics, this modern PySide6 book takes you on a tour of the key features of PySide6 you can use to build real-life applications.
This is the 5th Edition of Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt, updated for 2022 & PySide6. Learn the fundamental building blocks of PySide6 applications — Widgets, Layouts & Signals and learn how PySide6 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 PySide6 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.
Contents
- PySide6 Widgets
- Signals, slots & events
- GUI Layouts
- Toolbars & Menus
- PySide6 Dialogs, including file dialogs, warning and custom dialogs
- Windows
- Qt Designer
- PySide6 Themes, Styles, Palettes & Icons
- Model View Architecture
- Creating custom widgets, using custom widgets in Designer
- PySide6 Table views with numpy & pandas
- Database, SQL models
- Extending PyQt6 Signals
- Working with relative paths, resources
- System tray & Menus
- Threading, thread pools & processes, QThread
- Plotting with PyQtGraph & matplotlib
- Packaging & distribution of PySide6 apps on Windows, macOS & Linux
- Example PySide6 apps
The book includes
- 780 pages of hands-on PySide6 exercises
- 300+ code examples to experiment with
- Support forum for all readers
- Includes 4 example PySide6 apps
- Compatible with Python 3.4+
- Code free to reuse in your own projects
Martin Fitzpatrick has been teaching and using PySide for 10 years, helping thousands of developers bring their applications to life. With this book you get the benefit of that experience. & give your project the best chance of success!
Introduction
1. A very brief history of the GUI
2. A bit about Qt
Basic PySide6 Features
3. My first Application
4. Signals & Slots
5. Widgets
6. Layouts
7. Actions, Toolbars & Menus
8. Dialogs
9. Windows
10. Events
Qt Designer
11. Installing Qt Designer
12. Getting started with Qt Designer
13. The Qt Resource system
Theming
14. Styles
15. Palettes
16. Icons
17. Qt Style Sheets (QSS)
Model View Architecture
18. The Model View Architecture — Model View Controller
19. A simple Model View — a Todo List
20. Tabular data in ModelViews, with numpy & pandas
21. Querying SQL databases with Qt models
Custom Widgets
22. Bitmap Graphics in Qt
23. Creating Custom Widgets
24. Using Custom Widgets in Qt Designer
Concurrent Execution
25. Introduction to Threads & Processes
26. Using the thread pool
27. QRunnable examples
28. Long-running threads
29. Running external commands & processes
Plotting
30. Plotting with PyQtGraph
31. Plotting with Matplotlib
Further PySide6 Features
32. Timers
33. Extending Signals
34. Working with Relative Paths
35. System tray & macOS menus
36. Enums & the Qt Namespace
37. Working with command-line arguments
38. Pythonic PySide6
Packaging & Distribution
39. Packaging with PyInstaller
40. Creating a Windows installer with InstallForge
41. Creating a macOS Disk Image Installer
42. Creating a Linux Package with fpm
Example applications
43. Mozzarella Ashbadger
44. Moonsweeper
Appendix A: Installing PySide6
45. Installation Windows
46. Installation macOS
47. Installation on Linux
Appendix B: Translating C++ Examples to Python
48. The example code
49. Imports
50. int main(int argc, char *argv[])
51. C++ types
52. Signals
53. Syntax
54. Applying the process to your own code
Appendix C: PyQt6 and PySide6 — What’s the difference?
55. Background
56. Licensing
57. Namespaces & Enums
58. UI files
59. Converting UI files to Python
60. exec() or exec_()
61. Slots and Signals
62. QMouseEvent
63. Features in PySide6 but not in PyQt6
64. Supporting both in libraries
65. That’s really it
Appendix D: What next?
66. Get access to updates
67. Documentation
68. Copyright
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