Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6 (PyQt6 Edition): The hands-on guide to making apps with Python

Introduction....8 1. A very brief history of the GUI....10 2. A bit about Qt....13 Basic PySide6 Features....15 3. My first Application....16 4. Signals & Slots....29 5. Widgets....43 6. Layouts....77 7. Actions, Toolbars & Menus....104 8. Dialogs....131 9. Windows....185 10. Events....199 Qt Designer....210 11. Installing Qt Designer....211 12. Getting started with Qt Designer....217 13. The Qt Resource system....240 Theming....252 14. Styles....253 15. Palettes....257 16. Icons....270 17. Qt Style Sheets (QSS)....279 Model View Architecture....345 18. The Model View Architecture — Model View Controller....347 19. A simple Model View — a Todo List....350 20. Tabular data in ModelViews, with numpy & pandas....370 21. Querying SQL databases with Qt models....401 Custom Widgets....436 22. Bitmap Graphics in Qt....437 23. Creating Custom Widgets....475 24. Using Custom Widgets in Qt Designer....516 Concurrent Execution....532 25. Introduction to Threads & Processes....534 26. Using the thread pool....542 27. QRunnable examples....555 28. Long-running threads....626 29. Running external commands & processes....648 Plotting....660 30. Plotting with PyQtGraph....661 31. Plotting with Matplotlib....689 Further PySide6 Features....711 32. Timers....712 33. Extending Signals....719 34. Working with Relative Paths....731 35. System tray & macOS menus....737 36. Enums & the Qt Namespace....749 37. Working with command-line arguments....764 38. Pythonic PySide6....769 Packaging & Distribution....773 39. Packaging with PyInstaller....774 40. Creating a Windows installer with InstallForge....806 41. Creating a macOS Disk Image Installer....819 42. Creating a Linux Package with fpm....824 Example applications....837 43. Mozzarella Ashbadger....838 44. Moonsweeper....859 Appendix A: Installing PySide6....887 45. Installation Windows....888 46. Installation macOS....889 47. Installation on Linux....892 Appendix B: Translating C++ Examples to Python....893 48. The example code....895 49. Imports....897 50. int main(int argc, char *argv[])....899 51. C++ types....901 52. Signals....904 53. Syntax....906 54. Applying the process to your own code....909 Appendix C: PyQt6 and PySide6 — What’s the difference?....910 55. Background....911 56. Licensing....914 57. Namespaces & Enums....915 58. UI files....916 59. Converting UI files to Python....919 60. exec() or exec_()....921 61. Slots and Signals....922 62. QMouseEvent....924 63. Features in PySide6 but not in PyQt6....925 64. Supporting both in libraries....927 65. That’s really it....931 Appendix D: What next?....932 66. Get access to updates....933 67. Documentation....934 68. Copyright....935 69. Thank you....936