num_pages: 648
description: Whether you're building GUI prototypes or full-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with native look-and-feel PyQt 4 is your fastest easiest most powerful solution. Qt expert Mark Summerfield has written the definitive best-practice guide to PyQt 4 development. With Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt you'll learn how to build efficient GUI applications that run on all major operating systems including Windows Mac OS X Linux and many versions of Unix using the same source code for all of them. Summerfield systematically introduces every core GUI development from dialogs and windows to data handling; from events to printing; and more. Through the book's realistic examples you'll discover a completely new PyQt 4-based programming approach as well as coverage of many new topics from PyQt 4's rich text engine to advanced model/view and graphics/view programming. Every key concept is illuminated with realistic downloadable examplesall tested on Windows Mac OS X and Linux with Python 2.5 Qt 4.2 and PyQt 4.2 and on Windows and Linux with Qt 4.3 and PyQt 4.3. Coverge includes
language: English
title: Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt
publisher: Prentice Hall