Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6

Building desktop applications doesn't have to be difficult. Using Python & Qt6 you can create fully functional desktop apps in minutes. Starting from the very basics, this modern PyQt6 book takes you on a tour of the key features of PyQt6 you can use to build real-life applications.

This is the 5th Edition of Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt, updated for 2022 & PyQt6. Learn the fundamental building blocks of PyQt applications — Widgets, Layouts & Signals and learn how PyQt6 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 PyQt6 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

PyQt6 Widgets
Signals, slots & events
GUI Layouts
Toolbars & Menus
PyQt6 Dialogs, including file dialogs, warning and custom dialogs
Windows
Qt Designer
PyQt6 Themes, Styles, Palettes & Icons
Model View Architecture
Creating custom widgets, using custom widgets in Designer
PyQt6 Table views with numpy & pandas
Database, SQL models
Extending PyQt6 Signals
Working with relative paths, resources
System tray & Menus
Threading, thread pools & processes, QThread
Plotting with PyQtGraph & matplotlib
Packaging & distribution of PyQt6 apps on Windows, macOS & Linux
Example PyQt6 apps

The book includes

780 pages of hands-on PyQt6 exercises
300+ code examples to experiment with
Support forum for all readers
Includes 4 example PyQt6 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. With this book you get the benefit of that experience. & give your project the best chance of success!