Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6

Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6

PyQt6 Edition

Tired of piecing together incomplete and out of date examples? Looking for a book that answers real problems with well designed modern solutions? I've been teaching PySide6 for 8 years. I know the problems you're facing, because I've seen them before.

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Martin Fitzpatrick is a Python programmer, author and tutor. He's been developing Python/Qt apps for 10 years. Starting out building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt & PySide.

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Table of Contents

  • Basic PyQt6 Features p6-190
    • My first Application
    • Signals & Slots
    • Widgets
    • Layouts
    • Actions, Toolbars & Menus
    • Dialogs
    • Windows
    • Events
  • Qt Designer p191-225
    • Installing Qt Designer
    • Getting started with Qt Designer
  • Theming p216-291
    • Styles
    • Palettes
    • Icons
    • Qt Style Sheets (QSS)
  • Model View Architecture p292-369
    • The Model View Architecture — Model View Controller
    • A simple Model View — a Todo List
    • Tabular data in ModelViews, with numpy & pandas
    • SQL databases with Qt models
  • Custom Widgets p370-450
    • QPainter and Bitmap Graphics
    • Creating Custom Widgets
  • Concurrent Execution p451-564
    • Introducing Threads & Processes
    • QRunnable and the QThreadPool
    • QRunnable Examples, Progress Bars & thread Managers
    • Running external commands with QProcess
  • Plotting p565-604
    • PyQtGraph
    • Matplotlib
  • Further PyQt6 Features p605-656
    • Timers
    • Extending Signals
    • Working with Relative Paths
    • System tray & macOS menus
    • Enums & the Qt Namespace
    • Working with command-line arguments
  • Packaging & Distribution p657-711
    • Packaging with PyInstaller
    • Creating a Windows Installer with Installforge
    • Creating a macOS Disk Image Installer
    • Creating a Linux Package with fpm
  • Example applications p712-759
    • Web Browser
    • Minesweeper
  • Appendices
    • Translating C++ to Python
    • PySide6 vs. PyQt6

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