Qt for Python (i.e. PySide2) was announced recently and got me interested in trying to use it to load up a UI file. If you don’t know, PyQt and PySide / PySide2 can use the Qt Creator application to create user interfaces using a drag-and-drop interface. This is actually very similar to the way you […]
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The Qt Team recently posted that Qt will now be officially supporting the PySide2 project, which they are calling “Qt for Python”. It will be a complete port of the original PySide, which only supported Qt 4. PySide2 supports Qt 5. Qt for Python will have the following license types: GPL, LGPL and commercial. PySide2
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The PySide GUI toolkit for Python has several standard dialogs and message boxes that you can use as-is. You can also create custom dialogs, but we’ll be saving that for a future article. In this post, we will cover the following dialogs: Color Dialog File Dialog Font Dialog Input Dialog Print & Print Preview Dialogs
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As I learn PyQt and PySide, I am writing some tutorials to help my fellow travelers. Today we’ll be looking at how to connect multiple widgets to the same slot. In other words, we’ll be binding the widgets signals (basically events) to slots (i.e. callables like functions, methods) which are better known as “event handlers”.
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I am currently reading through Mark Summerfield’s book on PyQt, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt and thought it would be fun to take some of the example applications in it and convert them to PySide. So I’ll be creating a series of articles where I’ll show the original PyQt examples from the book
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I attended the Creating GUI Applications in Python using Qt I by Paul Kippes this morning and then I attended half of his second tutorial on PyQt this afternoon. The speaker had lots of materials to give us including fairly extensive examples. I think I learned a lot during the morning session because I had
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It’s almost the end of January already and PyCon USA 2011 is just around the corner. In this edition, we cover a wide variety of topics, from Python 2.7 – 3.x. We’ve got sprints, new books, web-related projects and good old recursion articles. Come one, come all! Read the news of the week! eWeek reports
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