Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt

Foreword xiiiIntroduction 1Part I: Python Programming Chapter 1. Data Types and Data Structures 9 Executing Python Code 10 Variables and Objects 12 Numbers and Strings 15 Collections 29 Built-in Functions 37 Summary 41 Exercises 42 Chapter 2. Control Structures 45 Conditional Branching 46 Looping 49 Functions 55 Exception Handling 66 Summary 72 Exercises 72 Chapter 3. Classes and Modules 75 Creating Instances 77 Methods and Special Methods 79 Inheritance and Polymorphism 99 Modules and Multifile Applications 104 Summary 107 Exercises 108 Part II: Basic GUI Programming Chapter 4. Introduction to GUI Programming 111 A Pop-Up Alert in 25 Lines 112 An Expression Evaluator in 30 Lines 116 A Currency Converter in 70 Lines 121 Signals and Slots 127 Summary 136 Exercise 137 Chapter 5. Dialogs 139 Dumb Dialogs 141 Standard Dialogs 147 Smart Dialogs 154 Summary 162 Exercise 163 Chapter 6. Main Windows 165 Creating a Main Window 166 Handling User Actions 190 Summary 201 Exercise 202 Chapter 7. Using Qt Designer 205 Designing User Interfaces 208 Implementing Dialogs 216 Testing Dialogs 221 Summary 223 Exercise 224 Chapter 8. Data Handling and Custom File Formats 227 Main Window Responsibilities 229 Data Container Responsibilities 235 Saving and Loading Binary Files 240 Saving and Loading Text Files 249 Saving and Loading XML Files 256 Summary 265 Exercise 266 Part III: Intermediate GUI Programming Chapter 9. Layouts and Multiple Documents 269 Layout Policies 270 Tab Widgets and Stacked Widgets 272 Splitters 280 Single Document Interface(SDI) 283 Multiple Document Interface(MDI) 290 Summary 300 Exercise 301 Chapter 10. Events, the Clipboard, and Drag and Drop 303 The Event-Handling Mechanism 303 Reimplementing Event Handlers 305 Using the Clipboard 310 Drag and Drop 312 Summary 317 Exercise 318 Chapter 11. Custom Widgets 321 Using Widget Style Sheets 322 Creating Composite Widgets 325 Subclassing Built-in Widgets 326 Subclassing QWidget 328 Summary 345 Exercise 346 Chapter 12.

Mark Summerfield works as an independent trainer and consultant specializing in C++, Qt, Python, and PyQt. He was Trolltech's documentation manager from 2000 to 2004, was the founding editor of Qt Quarterly, Trolltech's customer newsletter, and coauthored C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 and C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4.