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Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook Building responsive and powerful cross-platform applications with PyQt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831000
Length 462 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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B. M. Harwani B. M. Harwani
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Creating a User Interface with Qt Components FREE CHAPTER 2. Event Handling - Signals and Slots 3. Working with Date and Time 4. Understanding OOP Concepts 5. Understanding Dialogs 6. Understanding Layouts 7. Networking and Managing Large Documents 8. Doing Asynchronous Programming in Python 9. Database Handling 10. Using Graphics 11. Implementing Animation 12. Using Google Maps 13. Running Python Scripts on Android and iOS 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Using Horizontal Layout


A horizontal layout arranges widgets next to each other in a row that is, widgets are horizontally aligned using Horizontal Layout. Let's understand this concept by making an application.

How to do it...

In this application, we will prompt the user to enter an email address and password. The main focus of this recipe is to understand how two pairs of the Label and Line Edit widgets are horizontally aligned. Here is the step-by-step procedure to create this application:

  1. Let's create an application based on the Dialog without Buttons template and add two QLabel, two QlineEdit, and one QPushButton widget to the form by dragging and dropping two Label, two Line Edit, and a Push Button widget on the form.
  2. Set the text property of the two Label widgets to Name and Email Address.
  3. Also, set the text property of the Push Button widget to Submit.
  4. As the purpose of this application is to understand the layout and nothing else, we won't be setting the objectName property of any of...
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