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Python GUI Programming Recipes using PyQt5

Visually design powerful GUIs with Python and the Qt5 framework.

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By Miklós Prisznyák & Burkhard Meier

Time 4hrs 9mins

Published in Oct 2017

Product Type Video

Edition 1st Edition

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Develop beautiful and powerful GUIs using Python 3 and PyQt5

Design GUIs in a visual manner, using Qt Designer

Decouple UI and Python business logic code, using Best Practices

Description

Python and one of its QT bindings, PyQT, has changed the face of GUI development. It allows us to build beautiful and powerful GUIs that grab the attention of Python programmers. QT5 has several advantages over other GUI frameworks such as tkinter and wxPython. In this video, we will successfully install PyQt5 and the toolset that contains the QT Designer tool. The QT Designer enables us to develop our GUI in a visual manner, using drag and drop to add and position widgets, and we will use it extensively. We will then learn how to convert QT Designer-generated code into pure Python code. After having successfully installed PyQt5, the QT Designer, and all other required QT tools, we will start out simple, building a Python GUI using only a few lines of PyQT5 code. Then, we will build a more complex GUI using QT Designer. Along the way, we will explore many QT widgets and learn how to efficiently lay out our GUI design. We will enhance the look-and-feel of the GUI using CSS styling. We will also connect our GUI to a SQL database, which we will create. We decouple the business logic code from the UI code, using best practices. At the end of this video tutorial, viewers will be able to develop complex GUIs using PyQt5.

Who is this book for?

This video is for intermediate Python programmers who wish to enhance their Python skills by writing powerful GUIs in Python using PyQt.

What you will learn

Visually add and arrange many widgets using QT Designer
Decouple the Python code from the generated QT UI code
Use CSS styling to greatly enhance the GUI look-and-feel
Connect the GUI to a SQL database
Keep the GUI responsive via multiple threads
Learn how to use many widgets in the PyQT5 toolbox
Develop GUIs in a modular style

Category:

Programming

Languages:

Python

Concepts:

GUI Application Development

Tools:

PyQt

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(5 Chapters)

Introducing the PyQt5 Framework

The Course Overview

Installing the PyQt5 Framework

Creating Our First GUI in PyQt5

Adding Widgets to the GUI

Layout of Widgets

Designing Python GUIs with Qt Designer

Installing Qt Designer Tools

Creating Our First GUI Using Qt Designer

Adding Widgets with Qt Designer

Qt Designer Widget Layout

Converting the Qt Designer UI Code to Python Code

Enhancing the Qt5 GUI Functionality

Calling Dialogs from the Main Window

Decoupling Python Code from Generated UI Code

Building a Complex GUI with PyQt5

Multi-threading Keeps Our GUI Responsive

Using Drag and Drop Within the PyQt5 GUI

Advanced Qt5 Programming

Using the OpenGL Graphics Library

Networking and SQL Database

Animation Inside the GUI

Using CSS Styling to Greatly Enhance the GUI Look-and-Feel

PyQt5 ‘Signals and Slots’ Event Handling Mechanism

User Interface Design

What We See when We Look at the Existing GUIs

A Question of Design of User Interfaces

Displaying Google and Qt5 Maps

How to Create iPhone and Android Apps with Qt5

How to Rock the World with Your GUI

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About the authors

Miklós Prisznyák

Miklós Prisznyák is a seasoned software engineer with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, complemented by a strong background in scientific research. His expertise lies in object-oriented software development and design, with a deep command of Python, Linux, and advanced mathematical techniques used to craft high-performance, effective solutions. Throughout his career, Miklós has worked with global investment banks and a major media company, gaining extensive experience across complex and data-intensive environments. He currently focuses on Big Data and AI technologies, integrating his technical depth with emerging innovations in machine learning and artificial intelligence. His specialties span software architecture and the full software development life cycle (SDLC), test-driven development, scientific and engineering applications, mathematical modeling, numerical methods, time-series analysis, statistics, financial mathematics, Monte Carlo methods, large-scale data processing, LLMs, differential equations, and optimization techniques. Miklós brings a rare combination of theoretical insight and practical know-how to every project he tackles.

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Burkhard Meier

Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA. He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course. He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course. In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team. When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.

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