Master PyQt5 part3: Hand-coding a GUI

Author Alan D Moore demonstrates how to hand-code a PyQt5 GUI using our app template.

Thanks for watching!

[spartacus]

After stumbling around hours of other YT channels tutorials, finding this gem of a video actually explaining not just how to do things but most importantly why you would do those things really helped me understand the basics.

[FZ]

Cheap thrills: I find that using QTDesigner to create layouts, widgets, fonts, etc, then copying the pertinent sections into my code (discard the .ui file after copying), greatly speeds up coding GUI's. Also, finding out the syntax, for example hiding the password, can be found quicker by simply doing it in QTD, and then checking the ui code. Good presentation.

[Factory]

A bountiful booty indeed! This is by FAR the best presentation of PyQt5 available.
It educates the viewer with 'Why' and 'How' while everyone else just says 'type this mysterious code, don't worry why it works'

Now I can actually create my own GUI the way I want. Awesome.

[Linuxovert]

Great Job Alan, your tutorials should me taught at schools Man

[thatguy]

Thank you for teaching us to read the C++ docs and about using enums with the setter methods. PyQt5 makes much more sense now! Everyone: I have the book and it's fantastic. After trying to learn PyQt5 a couple times (videos, books) I am now 100% confident that by the end of the book, I'll be able to build solid, decent looking interfaces. Thanks again!

[Soljarag]

You are right.... I AM a smart person!

[marcowisse]

Thanks for a great video! I seem to have one issue though: on my mac the input fields don't expand to match the width of the buttons below; i.e. the 'Login' button protrudes beyond the edges of the input fields above...

[samirasamilan]

Great tutorial. As a result, I ordered you book. Thanks.

[angel_machariel]

The reason the button wasn't visible the first time is not because you didn't have a layout; That was incidental. The button didn't show because you didn't pass its parent in the constructor. I.e. QPushButton("text", self) .

[rpdacosta]

This was an awesome series of videos Alan. Well done.
I just got your book, may I ask how you can also change the value of your qtw.QTableWidgetItem
into a integer in stead of a string? (otherwise it's hard to sort the numbers.)

[bobbryce]

Alan - Thanks so much for the effort invested in the tutorials. I'm here to tell you it was worth it, since I just bought your GUI book!

I had an error here that's probably related to my combination of PyQT5 (v5.14.1) and Python 3 (3.8). Apparently its no longer possible to apply a layout directly to the MainWindow as you'll get an error that a layout already exists. For more info, I would refer folks to this response on StackFlow

Thanks again
Bob