GUI Programming with Python: QT EditionGUI Programming with Python: QT Edition
Boudewijn Rempt
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Dedication
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- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- I. Introduction to the BlackAdder IDE
- 2. Installation
- 3. Interface
- 4. Introduction to Python
- 5. Debugging
- II. PyQt fundamentals
- III. Creating real applications with PyQt
- 12. Application Frameworks
- 13. Actions: menus, toolbars and accelerators
- 14. Automatic testing with PyUnit
- 15. A More Complex Framework: Multiple Documents, Multiple
Views- 16. User Interface Paradigms
- 17. Creating Application Functionality
- 18. Application Configuration
- 19. Using Dialog Windows
- 20. A Macro Language for Kalam
- 21. Drawing on Painters and Canvases
- 22. Gui Design in the Baroque Age
- 23. Drag and drop
- 24. Printing
- 25. Internationalizing an Application
- 26. Delivering your Application
- 27. Envoi
- IV. Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Tables
- 1-1. GUI Toolkits for Python
- 7-1. Matrix of
QObject.connect()
combinations.- 10-1. Qt and Python high-level datastructures
- 10-2. Qt and Python network classes
- C-1. C++ access specifiers and sip
- C-2. Command line options
- C-3. Macros in Makefile Templates
- C-4. Flags in member function declaration
- C-1. Error flags in sipParseArgs()
- C-2. Format specifiers for
sipParseArgs()
- List of Figures
- 10-1. Qt Inheritance Hierarchy (only the most important classes)
- 10-2. Object Ownership Hierarchy
- 20-1. Playing with eval()
- 20-2. Playing with exec
- 20-3. Playing with
execfile()
- List of Examples
- 1-1. Bootstrapping a Python application
- 6-1. hello1.py — hello world
- 6-2. hello2.py — a better hello world
- 6-3. fragment from hello3.py
- 6-4. Fragment from hello5.py
- 6-5. Fragment from hello4.py
- 6-6. frmconnect.py
- 6-7. dlgconnect.py — the subclass of the generated form
- 7-1. A stupid button which is not reusable
- 7-2. A simple callback system
- 7-3. A central registry of connected widgets
- 7-4. Connecting a signal to a slot
- 7-5. Connection a dial to a label with signals and slots
- 7-6. Python signals and slots
- 7-7. Python signals and slots with arguments
- 7-8. datasource.py — connecting and disconnecting signals and
slots- 7-9. An XML parser with signals and slots
- 8-1. qstring1.py — conversion from
QString to a Python string.- 8-2. qstring2.py - second try of saving a
QString to a file- 8-3. empty.py - feeding zero bytes to a QCString
- 8-4. null.py - empty and null QCStrings and Python
strings- 8-5. emptyqstring.py - feeding zero bytes to a
QString- 8-6. Loading an utf-8 encoded text
- 8-7. Building a string from single Unicode
characters- 8-8. sitecustomize.py — saving a useful
function from wanton destruction- 8-9. uniqstring3.py - messing with Unicode strings
using utf-8 as default encoding- 8-10. uniqstring1.py - coercing Python strings into
and from QStrings- 8-11. uniqstring2.py - coercing Python strings into and from
QStrings- 9-1. refs.py - showing object references
- 9-2. circular.py - circululululular references
- 9-3. qtrefs1.py — about Qt reference counting
- 9-4. qtrefs2.py - keeping a Qt widget alive
- 9-5. qtrefs3.py - Qt parents and children
- 9-6. Eradicating a widget
- 9-7. children.py - getting the children from a single
parent- 9-8. Iterating over children
- 9-9. sigslot.py - a simple signals/slots implementation
in Python, following the Observer pattern- 9-10. Object introspection using Qt
- 9-11. Object introspection using Python
- 10-1. event1.py - handling mouse events in PyQt
- 10-2. action.py - Using a QAction to group data associated with
user commands- 10-3. fragment from mdi.py - ten little scribbling windows
- 10-4. event2.py - using QWidget to create a custom,
double-buffered drawing widget.- 10-5. snippet from event3.py - a peach puff drawing
board- 10-6. fragment from action2.py - You cannot create a
QPixmap before a QApplication- 10-7. buttons.py - Four pushbuttons saying
‘hello'.- 10-8. label.py - a label associated with an
edit control- 10-9. radio.py - a group of mutually exclusive
options- 10-10. listbox.py - A listbox where data can be
associated with an entry- 10-11. tree.py - building a tree
- 10-12. layout.py - two box layouts and adding and removing buttons
dynamically to a layout- 10-13. geometry.py - setting the initial size of an
application- 10-14. dialogs.py - opening message and default dialogs boxes
- 10-15. fragment from dialogs.py - opening a file dialog
- 10-16. fragment from dialogs.py - opening a font dialog
- 10-17. fragment from dialogs.py - opening a color dialog
- 10-18. from dv_qt.py - using Qt utility
classes- 10-19. fragment from db_python.py - using Python utility classes
- 10-20. Using QMimeSourceFactory (application.py)
- 10-21. thread1.py — Python threads without
gui- 10-22. Python threads and a PyQt gui window
- 11-1. dlgcomplex.py — a subclass of frmcomplex.py
- 11-2. Setting default values
- 12-1. A simple document-view framework
- 12-2. Scripting an application is easy
- 13-1. Defining a complex toggle action
- 15-1. A testcase for a document manager
- 15-2. The document manager class
- 15-3. The document class
- 15-4. The view class
- 15-5. The application class
- 21-1. typometer.py - A silly type-o-meter that keeps a
running count of how many characters are added to a certain
document and shows a chart of the typerate...- 21-2. charmap.py - a Unicode character selection
widget- 22-1. remote.py - remote control application
- 22-2. view.py - the main view of the remote control
application- 22-3. button.py - the class that implements the pixmapped
buttons- 22-4. A Qt 2 custom style - a minimalist
implementation of the classic Mac style in PyQt.- 22-5. Testing styles
- 23-1. Handling drop events
- 23-2. Drag and drop
- 25-1. Installing the translator
- 26-1. README
- 26-2. setup.py - a sample setup script
- 26-3. MANIFEST.in
- C-1. Interface for
QRegExp::match