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Mastering GUI Programming with Python

You're reading from   Mastering GUI Programming with Python Develop impressive cross-platform GUI applications with PyQt

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612905
Length 542 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alan D. Moore Alan D. Moore
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Deep Dive into PyQt FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with PyQt 3. Building Forms with QtWidgets 4. Handling Events with Signals and Slots 5. Building Applications with QMainWindow 6. Creating Data Interfaces with Model-View Classes 7. Styling Qt Applications 8. Section 2: Working with External Resources
9. Working with Audio-Visual Using QtMultimedia 10. Networking with QtNetwork 11. Exploring SQL with Qt SQL 12. Section 3: Unraveling Advanced Qt Implementations
13. Multithreading with QTimer and QThread 14. Creating Rich Text with QTextDocument 15. Creating 2D Graphics with QPainter 16. Creating 3D Graphics with QtOpenGL 17. Embedding Data Plots with QtCharts 18. PyQt Raspberry Pi 19. Web Browsing with QtWebEngine 20. Preparing Your Software for Distribution 21. Answers to Questions 22. Upgrading Raspbian 9 to Raspbian 10
23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

Try these questions to test your knowledge of this chapter:

  1. Look at the following table and determine which of the connections could actually be made, and which would result in an error. You may need to look up the signatures of these signals and slots in the documentation:
# Signal Slot
1 QPushButton.clicked QLineEdit.clear
2 QComboBox.currentIndexChanged QListWidget.scrollToItem
3 QLineEdit.returnPressed QCalendarWidget.setGridVisible
4 QLineEdit.textChanged

QTextEdit.scrollToAnchor

  1. The emit() method does not exist on a signal object until the signal has been bound (that is, connected to a slot). Rewrite the CategoryWindow.onSubmit() method from our first calendar_app.py file to protect against the possibility of submitted being unbound.
  1. You find an object in the Qt documentation with a slot that requires a QString as an argument. Can you connect...
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