[PyKDE] PyQt book

Mark Summerfield mark at qtrac.eu
Sat Nov 18 07:33:56 GMT 2006


On Sat 18-Nov-06 07:17, johnf wrote:
> On Friday 17 November 2006 22:40, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> > On Wed 15-Nov-06 06:40, simon stockes wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Since few days it is not possible to reach
> > > http://www.opendocs.org/pyqt/.
> > >
> > > Any information ?, Is PyQt4 book on the way ?
> > >
> > > Simon
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Regarding your enquiry about a book, I'm writing a PyQt4 book right now
> > that I hope will be published by Prentice Hall in the Fall of 2007.
> > I have wanted to write a PyQt book for some time, since Python and Qt
> > are my favorite technologies.
> >
> > My technical reviewers include Phil Thompson and David Boddie, both
> > familiar to regular readers of this list, and I co-wrote C++ GUI
> > Programming with Qt 4, so I think it will be a good book.
> >
> > Regards,
>
> I'm to glad to hear that a book is coming.  If I might make a suggestion. I
> hope that you will include a chapter on creating a GUI database app.  It
> does not have to be anything special but should offer a straight forward
> way to populate controls and validate the controls.

John,

I hope to cover this as part of my model/view coverage, although for
database forms it'll be specific to PyQt 4.1+ (Qt 4.2+) since that has
QDataWidgetMapper.

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Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu




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