Mastering GUI Programming with Python: Develop impressive cross-platform GUI applications with PyQt

An advanced guide to creating powerful high-performance GUIs for modern, media-rich applications in various domains such as business and game development

Key Features:

• Gain comprehensive knowledge of Python GUI development using PyQt 5.12
• Explore advanced topics including multithreaded programming, 3D animation, and SQL databases
• Build cross-platform GUIs for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi

Book Description:

PyQt5 has long been the most powerful and comprehensive GUI framework available for Python, yet there is a lack of cohesive resources available for Python programmers to learn how to use it. This book will be your comprehensive guide to exploring GUI development with PyQt5.

You will get started with an introduction to PyQt5, before going on to develop stunning GUIs with modern features. You will learn how to build forms using QWidgets and delve into important aspects of GUI development such as layouts, size policies, and event-driven programming. Moving ahead, you'll discover PyQt5's most powerful features through chapters on audio-visual programming with QtMultimedia, database-driven software with QtSQL, and web browsing with QtWebEngine. Next, in-depth coverage of multithreading and asynchronous programming will help you run tasks asynchronously and build high-concurrency processes with ease. In later chapters, you'll gain insights into QOpenGLWidget, along with mastering techniques for creating 2D graphics with QPainter. You'll also explore PyQt on a Raspberry Pi and interface it with remote systems using QtNetwork. Finally, you will learn how to distribute your applications using setuptools and PyInstaller.

By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to develop robust GUI applications using PyQt.

What You Will Learn:

• Get to grips with the inner workings of PyQt5
• Understand how elements in a GUI application communicate with signals and slots
• Study techniques for styling an application
• Explore database-driven applications with the QtSQL module
• Create 2D graphics with QPainter
• Delve into 3D graphics with QOpenGLWidget
• Build network and web-aware applications with QtNetwork and QtWebEngine

Who this book is for:

This book is for programmers who want to create attractive, functional, and powerful GUIs using the Python language. You'll also find this book useful if you are a student, professional, or anyone who wants to start exploring GUIs. Although prior knowledge of the Python language is assumed, experience with PyQt, Qt, or GUI programming is not required.

Author: Alan D. Moore
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 05/24/2019
Pages: 542
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.03lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9781789612905

About the Author
Moore, Alan D.: - Jaroslaw Krochmalski is a passionate software designer and developer who specializes in the financial business domain. He has over 12 years' experience in software development. He is a clean-code and software craftsmanship enthusiast. He is a Certified Scrum Master and a fan of Agile. His professional interests include new technologies in web application development, design patterns, enterprise architectures, and integration patterns. He has been designing and developing software professionally since 2000 and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 2002. In the past, he worked for companies such as Kredyt Bank (KBC) and Bank BPS on many large-scale projects such as international money orders, express payments, and collection systems. He currently works as a consultant at Danish company 7N as an infrastructure architect for the Nykredit bank. You can reach him via Twitter at @jkroch or by e-mail at jarek@finsys.pl.

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