Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6 (PySide6 Edition)


Book Description

Building desktop applications doesn't have to be difficult. Using Python & Qt5 you can create fully functional desktop apps in minutes. This is the 5th Edition of Create GUI Applications, updated for 2021 & PySide6 Starting from the very basics, this book takes you on a tour of the key features of PySide6 you can use to build real-life applications. Learn the fundamental building blocks of PySide6 applications — Widgets, Layouts & Signals and learn how PySide 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. - 665 pages of hands-on PySide6 exercises - 211 code examples to experiment with - Includes 4 example apps - Compatible with Python 3.6+ - Code free to reuse in your own projects




Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt5 (PySide2 Edition)


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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 PySide you can use to build real-life applications. Learn the fundamental building blocks of PySide applications — Widgets, Layouts & Signals and learn how PySide 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 - Includes 4 example apps - Compatible with Python 3.4+ - Code free to reuse in your own projects




Me, the Mob, and the Music


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Now in paperback, after five hardcover printings, Tommy James’s wild and entertaining true story of his career—part rock & roll fairytale, part valentine to a bygone era, and part mob epic—that “reads like a music-industry version of Goodfellas” (The Denver Post). Everyone knows the hits: “Hanky Panky,” “Mony Mony,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Crimson and Clover,” “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” All of these songs, which epitomize great pop music of the late 1960s, are now widely used in television and film and have been covered by a diverse group of artists from Billy Idol to Tiffany to R.E.M. Just as compelling as the music itself is the life Tommy James lived while making it. James tells the incredible story, revealing his complex and sometimes terrifying relationship with Roulette Records and Morris Levy, the legendary Godfather of the music business. Me, the Mob, and the Music is a fascinating portrait of this swaggering, wildly creative era of rock ’n’ roll, when the hits kept coming and payola and the strong-arm tactics of the Mob were the norm, and what it was like, for better or worse, to be in the middle of it.




Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6 (PyQt6 Edition)


Book Description

Building desktop applications doesn't have to be difficult. Using Python & Qt6 you can create fully functional desktop apps in minutes. This is the 5th Edition of Create GUI Applications, updated for 2021 & PyQt6 Starting from the very basics, this book takes you on a tour of the key features of PyQt6 you can use to build real-life applications. Learn the fundamental building blocks of PyQt6 applications — Widgets, Layouts & Signals and learn how PyQt6 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 PyQt6 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 - 780 pages of hands-on PyQt6 exercises - 300+ code examples to experiment with - Includes 4 example apps - Compatible with Python 3.6+ - Code free to reuse in your own projects Contents PyQt6 Widgets Signals, slots & events GUI Layouts Toolbars & Menus PyQt6 Dialogs, including file dialogs, warning and custom dialogs Windows Qt Designer PyQt6 Themes, Styles, Palettes & Icons Model View Architecture Creating custom widgets, using custom widgets in Designer PyQt6 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 PyQt6 apps on Windows, macOS & Linux Example PyQt6 apps




Breaking Out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR


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With the introduction of Adobe AIR, Flex developers have more capability than ever before. Now you can build dynamic applications that combine the rich experience of a traditional desktop application with the power of the Internet. Leveraging your existing knowledge of Adobe Flex and Flash, Breaking out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR will help you build well-architected desktop applications. Flex and Flash experts Jeff Tapper and Michael Labriola will teach you techniques to create truly custom interfaces by leading you through exercises with a real world time-tracking application. The book’s abundance of examples will help you become adept at interacting with the end user’s underlying operating system and teach you the most important concepts for using AIR.




Hands-On Qt for Python Developers


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Boost UI development with ready-made widgets, controls, charts, and data visualization and create stunning 2D and 3D graphics with PyQt and PySide2. Key Features Build optimized GUI applications by implementing multiprocessing and concurrency Understand embedded and mobile development with PyQt and PySide Learn to create magnificent GUI applications using Pyside2 and QtQuick/QML Book Description Qt is one of the most widely used and flexible frameworks for GUI application development, allowing you to write your application once and then deploy it to multiple operating systems. This book combines the best of Python and Qt to help you develop GUI applications with Python bindings, such as PyQt and PySide, that will supercharge your Python applications. The book begins with an overview of Qt and QML. You'll start by working with PyQt GUI elements to style your applications. Then, you will learn how to use QWidget, frames, labels, and text fields, and work with graphics. This will be followed by taking you through how elements in the application communicate with each other by understanding signals, slots, and event handlers. This book will help you to gain a better understanding of the Qt framework and the tools to resolve issues when testing, linking, debugging, and multithreading your Python GUI applications. Finally, the book will help you get to grips with embedded and mobile development using PyQt and PySide. By the end of the book, you will be able to create modern, responsive, cross-platform desktop applications with the power of Qt, Python, and QML. What you will learn Explore PyQt5 and PySide2 to create comprehensive GUI applications Find out how threading and multiprocessing work Understand how to style GUIs with PyQt Get to grips with implementing buttons Understand how elements communicate with signals, slots, and event handlers Explore mobile development with PyQt and PySide Who this book is for This book is for Python developers who want to develop GUIs and cross-platform applications that are modern, responsive, and attractive. No prior knowledge of Qt or QML is required.




Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt


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Whether you're building GUI prototypes or full-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with native look-and-feel, PyQt 4 is your fastest, easiest, most powerful solution. Qt expert Mark Summerfield has written the definitive best-practice guide to PyQt 4 development. With Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt you'll learn how to build efficient GUI applications that run on all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many versions of Unix, using the same source code for all of them. Summerfield systematically introduces every core GUI development technique: from dialogs and windows to data handling; from events to printing; and more. Through the book's realistic examples you'll discover a completely new PyQt 4-based programming approach, as well as coverage of many new topics, from PyQt 4's rich text engine to advanced model/view and graphics/view programming. Every key concept is illuminated with realistic, downloadable examples–all tested on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with Python 2.5, Qt 4.2, and PyQt 4.2, and on Windows and Linux with Qt 4.3 and PyQt 4.3.




Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook


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QT5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook will guide you from the very basics of creating a fully functional GUI application using PyQT with only a few lines of code. Each recipe adds more widgets to the GUIs we are creating. You will learn how easy it is to get started and you might be surprised how advanced you can become in just a short time of coding




Cross-Platform Development with Qt 6 and Modern C++


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Enhance your cross-platform programming abilities with the powerful features and capabilities of Qt 6 Key Features Leverage Qt and C++ capabilities to create modern, cross-platform applications that can run on a wide variety of software applications Explore what’s new in Qt 6 and understand core concepts in depth Build professional customized GUI applications with the help of Qt Creator Book DescriptionQt is a cross-platform application development framework widely used for developing applications that can run on a wide range of hardware platforms with little to no change in the underlying codebase. If you have basic knowledge of C++ and want to build desktop or mobile applications with a modern graphical user interface (GUI), Qt is the right choice for you. Cross-Platform Development with Qt 6 and Modern C++ helps you understand why Qt is one of the favorite GUI frameworks adopted by industries worldwide, covering the essentials of programming GUI apps across a multitude of platforms using the standard C++17 and Qt 6 features. Starting with the fundamentals of the Qt framework, including the features offered by Qt Creator, this practical guide will show you how to create classic user interfaces using Qt Widgets and touch-friendly user interfaces using Qt Quick. As you advance, you'll explore the Qt Creator IDE for developing applications for multiple desktops as well as for embedded and mobile platforms. You will also learn advanced concepts about signals and slots. Finally, the book takes you through debugging and testing your app with Qt Creator IDE. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build cross-platform applications with a modern GUI along with the speed and power of native apps.What you will learn Write cross-platform code using the Qt framework to create interactive applications Build a desktop application using Qt Widgets Create a touch-friendly user interface with Qt Quick Develop a mobile application using Qt and deploy it on different platforms Get to grips with Model/View programming with Qt Widgets and Qt Quick Discover Qt’s graphics framework and add animations to your user interface Write test cases using the Qt Test framework and debug code Build a translation-aware application Follow best practices in Qt to write high-performance code Who this book is for This book is for application developers who want to use C++ and Qt to create modern, responsive applications that can be deployed to multiple operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux desktop platforms. Although no prior knowledge of Qt is expected, beginner-level knowledge of the C++ programming language and object-oriented programming system (OOPs) concepts will be helpful.




Learn SQLite with Python


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This book is SQLite-based python programming for database-driven desktop projects. Deliberately designed for various levels of programming skill, this book is suitable for students, engineers, and even researchers in various disciplines. There is no need for advanced programming experience, and school-level programming skills are needed. In the first chapter, you will learn to use several widgets in PyQt5: Display a welcome message; Use the Radio Button widget; Grouping radio buttons; Displays options in the form of a check box; and Display two groups of check boxes. In chapter two, you will learn to use the following topics: Using Signal / Slot Editor; Copy and place text from one Line Edit widget to another; Convert data types and make a simple calculator; Use the Spin Box widget; Use scrollbars and sliders; Using the Widget List; Select a number of list items from one Widget List and display them on another Widget List widget; Add items to the Widget List; Perform operations on the Widget List; Use the Combo Box widget; Displays data selected by the user from the Calendar Widget; Creating a hotel reservation application; and Display tabular data using Table Widgets. In chapter three, you will learn: How to create the initial three tables project in the School database: Teacher, Class, and Subject tables; How to create database configuration files; How to create a Python GUI for inserting and editing tables; How to create a Python GUI to join and query the three tables. In chapter four, you will learn how to: Create a main form to connect all forms; Create a project will add three more tables to the school database: Student, Parent, and Tuition tables; Create a Python GUI for inserting and editing tables; Create a Python GUI to join and query over the three tables. In chapter five, you will join the six classes, Teacher, TClass, Subject, Student, Parent, and Tuition and make queries over those tables. In chapter six, you will create dan configure database. In this chapter, you will create Suspect table in crime database. This table has eleven columns: suspect_id (primary key), suspect_name, birth_date, case_date, report_date, suspect_ status, arrest_date, mother_name, address, telephone, and photo. You will also create GUI to display, edit, insert, and delete for this table. In chapter seven, you will create a table with the name Feature_Extraction, which has eight columns: feature_id (primary key), suspect_id (foreign key), feature1, feature2, feature3, feature4, feature5, and feature6. The six fields (except keys) will have VARBINARY(MAX) data type. You will also create GUI to display, edit, insert, and delete for this table. In chapter eight, you will create two tables, Police and Investigator. The Police table has six columns: police_id (primary key), province, city, address, telephone, and photo. The Investigator table has eight columns: investigator_id (primary key), investigator_name, rank, birth_date, gender, address, telephone, and photo. You will also create GUI to display, edit, insert, and delete for both tables. In the last chapter, you will create two tables, Victim and Case_File. The Victim table has nine columns: victim_id (primary key), victim_name, crime_type, birth_date, crime_date, gender, address, telephone, and photo. The Case_File table has seven columns: case_file_id (primary key), suspect_id (foreign key), police_id (foreign key), investigator_id (foreign key), victim_id (foreign key), status, and description. You will create GUI to display, edit, insert, and delete for both tables as well.