Making GUI Apps with Python & Qt6: A Hands-On Guide

You can create fully functional desktop apps in minutes using Python & Qt6, and it doesn't have to be difficult. This modern PyQt6 book takes you on a tour of the key features of PyQt6, starting from the basics, and shows you how to build real-life applications. This is the 2nd Edition of Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6, updated for 2022 & PyQt6.

Learn the fundamental building blocks of PyQt applications — Widgets, Layouts & Signals, and how PyQt6 uses the event loop to handle and respond to user input. Design beautiful UIs with Qt Designer, customize the look and feel of your applications with Qt Style Sheets and custom widgets, and use Qt's MVC-like ModelViews framework to connect data sources to your widgets, including SQL databases, numpy and pandas data tables.

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, and parse data to visualize the output in logs and progress bars. The book also includes usability and architectural tips to help you build maintainable and usable PyQt6 applications from the start, and how to package your application into professional-quality installers when it's ready to be released.

Contents include PyQt6 Widgets, Signals, slots & events, GUI Layouts, Toolbars & Menus, PyQt6 Dialogs, Windows, Qt Designer, PyQt6 Themes, Styles, Palettes & Icons, Model View Architecture, creating custom widgets, 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, and packaging & distribution of PyQt6 apps on Windows, macOS & Linux, as well as example PyQt6 apps.

The book includes 780 pages of hands-on PyQt6 exercises and 300+ code examples to experiment with. It also offers a support forum for all readers and includes 4 example PyQt6 apps. It is compatible with Python 3.4+ and the code is free to reuse in your own projects. With this book, you get the benefit of 8 years of experience teaching and using PyQt from Martin Fitzpatrick, who has helped thousands of developers bring their applications to life.

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