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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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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
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Using fonts, images, and icons

We'll begin styling our Qt application by customizing the application's fonts, displaying some static images, and including dynamic icons. However, before we can do this, we'll need to create a graphical user interface (GUI) that we can work with. We'll create a game lobby dialog, which will be used for logging into an imaginary multiplayer game called Fight Fighter.

To do this, open a fresh copy of your application template and add the following GUI code to MainWindow.__init__():

        self.setWindowTitle('Fight Fighter Game Lobby')
cx_form = qtw.QWidget()
self.setCentralWidget(cx_form)
cx_form.setLayout(qtw.QFormLayout())
heading = qtw.QLabel("Fight Fighter!")
cx_form.layout().addRow(heading)

inputs = {
'Server': qtw.QLineEdit(),
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