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Pyside GUI Application Development- Second Edition

You're reading from   Pyside GUI Application Development- Second Edition Develop more dynamic and robust GUI applications using PySide, an open source cross-platform UI framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785282454
Length 144 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Venkateshwaran Loganathan Venkateshwaran Loganathan
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Widgets at a glance


Widgets are the basic building blocks of a Graphical User Interface hierarchy in GUI applications. Widgets are basically used to display data and status information, receive user input, and provide a container for other widgets that should be grouped together. Qt comes with a variety of basic and advanced built-in widgets that can be customized to our own needs. A list of predefined widgets is given in the following tables for your reference. QWidget is the base class for all the widgets given in the following lists.

The following is a list of predefined basic widgets:

Widget

Description

QCheckBox

This is a checkbox with a text label

QComboBox

This is a combined button and pop-up list

QCommandLinkButton

This is a Vista-style command-link button

QDateEdit

This is a widget that is used to edit dates that are based on the QDateTimeEdit widget

QDateTimeEdit

This is a widget that is used to edit dates and times

QDial

This is a rounded range control...

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