What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with PySide, introduces you to GUI programming in general. This chapter takes you through the introduction of PySide and its installation in various major operating systems, followed by a short introduction to exception handling in programming. By the end of this chapter, users will know how to install and use PySide to create GUI applications in Python.

Chapter 2, Entering through Windows, introduces you to all the GUI programming that revolves around Windows. This chapter explains the basic methods of creating windows and adding some functions to them. By the end of this chapter, users will be familiar with how to create windows and modify them accordingly.

Chapter 3, Main Windows and Layout Management, elaborates further on the previous chapter by explaining how to create menus and tool bars for a windowed application. This also explains layout management policies. A simple text editor is given as an example at the end of the chapter. By the end of this chapter, readers have an experience of creating a real-time application in PySide.

Chapter 4, Events and Signals, this chapter goes on to explain the signals, various text and graphic effects, drag and drop, and a few geometrical diagram shapes. By the end of this chapter, readers will learn about managing events and various other text and graphical effects.

Chapter 5, Dialogs and Widgets, details the built-in dialog boxes for applications, introduces how to create customized dialogs, and then takes a look at the various widgets that are available in PySide. By the end of this chapter, you will learn about creating your own customized widgets and dialogs.

Chapter 6, Database Handling, explains how connecting to a database is evident for almost all applications. This chapter is dedicated to explaining how to connect to a database and execute queries on it. It also deals with the presentation of data in table and form views. By the end of this chapter, you will know more about interacting with databases and viewing data from them.