Create GUI Applications with Python Qt5 (PyQt5 Edition): The hands-on guide to making apps with Python

Building desktop applications doesn't have to be difficult. Using Python & Qt5 you can create fully functional desktop apps in minutes. Starting from the very basics, this modern PyQt5 book takes you on a tour of the key features of PyQt5 you can use to build real-life applications.

This is the 4th Edition of Create GUI Applications, updated for 2020 & PyQt5. Learn the fundamental building blocks of PyQt applications — Widgets, Layouts & Signals and learn how PyQt5 uses the event loop to handle and respond to user input. Design beautiful UIs with Qt Designer and customize the look and feel of your applications with Qt Style Sheets and custom widgets.Use Qt's MVC-like ModelViews framework to connect data sources to your widgets, including SQL databases, numpy and pandas data tables, to build-data driven application. Visualize data using matplotlib & PyQtGraph and connect with external data sources to build live dashboards. Learn how to use threads and processes to manage long-running tasks and communicate with external services. Parse data and visualize the output in logs and progress bars.The book includes usability and architectural tips to help you build maintainable and usable PyQt5 applications from the start. Finally, once your application is ready to be released, discover how to package it up into professional-quality installers, ready to ship.

Contents

• PyQt5 Widgets
• Signals, slots & events
• GUI Layouts
• Toolbars & Menus
• PyQt5 Dialogs
• Windows
• Qt Designer
• PyQt5 Themes, Styles, Palettes & Icons
• Model View Architecture
• PyQt5 Table views with numpy & pandas
• Database, SQL models
• Extending PyQt5 Signals
• System tray & Menus
• PyQt5 threading, thread pools & processes
• Plotting with PyQtGraph & matplotlib
• Packaging & distribution PyQt5 apps
• Example PyQt5 apps

The book includes

• 665 pages of hands-on PyQt5 exercises
• 211 code examples to experiment with
• Support forum for all readers
• Includes 4 example PyQt5 apps
• Compatible with Python 3.4+
• Code free to reuse in your own projects

Martin Fitzpatrick has been teaching and using PyQt for 8 years, helping thousands of developers bring their applications to life.