• Overviews_and_Guides

Overviews and Guides

This page contains a list of overviews and guides that aim to provide more depth and background material than the items on the SampleCode page.

• Graphics_View_-_Text_Effects - an example showing simple text effects using the Graphics View framework.

• pyqt4_and_twisted - a (stub) tutorial on how to use twisted with pyqt4.

• PyKDE_and_xattr - a tutorial and script on how to make a simple PyKDE application.

• Multimedia_Resources - the beginning of a document about using audio and video libraries with PyQt and PyKDE.

• Using_Python_Custom_Widgets_in_Qt_Designer - shows how to prepare an example widget so that it can be used in Qt Designer.

• MathTran_Equation_Editor - shows how to use QHttp to obtain data from a Web service.

• Modifying_a_standard_Qt_image_plugin - more about hacking Qt than creating beautiful things with Python

• Designing Custom Controls with PyQt - an article in Qt Quarterly 26 with downloadable example code.

  • See the article's page on the Qt Centre Wiki for discussion and additions to the article and example code.

• Low-Level Text Layouts - an article in Qt Quarterly 24 with downloadable example code written in C++, Java and Python.

• Notes for embedding python in your C/C++ app.

  • Patrick Stinson, the author of the above guide, has written it up on a Wiki here: http://trac2.assembla.com/pkaudio/wiki/EmbeddedInterpreter

• The outline of a Wiki book about PyKDE programming.

• The Python Programming Wiki book contains a chapter about PyQt4.

• MiniSipExample is an introduction to using SIP to create bindings for your own libraries.