The Insider’s Best-Practice Guide to Rapid PyQt 4 GUI Development
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 technique: 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 examples-all 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
- Python basics for every PyQt developer: data types, data structures, control structures, classes, modules, and more
- Core PyQt GUI programming techniques: dialogs, main windows, and custom file formats
- Using Qt Designer to design user interfaces, and to implement and test dialogs, events, the Clipboard, and drag-and-drop
- Building custom widgets: Widget Style Sheets, composite widgets, subclassing, and more
- Making the most of Qt 4.2’s new graphics/view architecture
- Connecting to databases, executing SQL queries, and using form and table views
- Advanced model/view programming: custom views, generic delegates, and more
- Implementing online help, internationalizing applications, and using PyQt’s networking and multithreading facilities
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These days, it’s not just corporate marketing directors tasked with giving computer-based presentations-anyone forced to stand in front of a crowd and talk for more than three minutes had better know how to put together a slide presentation. You’re not a professional designer, but you want your slides to look professional. What do you do?
Enter Robin Williams, the beloved, best-selling non-designer’s designer (with over 850,000 copies of The Non-Designer’s Design Book in print!) who has taught an entire generation the basics of design and typography. In The Non-Designer’s Presentation Book, Robin expands upon the design principles introduced in her award-winning Non-Designer’s series. She explains four fundamental principles of good design as applied to digital presentations, and adds four more principles specific to clear communication with slides.
Whether you work with a Mac or PC, PowerPoint or Keynote, let Robin guide you, in her signature, light-hearted style, through the entire process of creating a presentation-from using the right software to organizing your ideas to designing effective, beautiful slides that won’t put your audience to sleep.
In this essential guide to presentation design, you’ll learn:
- What makes a good presentation or a bad one
- How to plan, organize, and outline your presentation
- Four principles of designing effective presentations
- Four principles for designing beautiful slides that communicate clearly
- An exhaustive list of timeless presentation rules…that you should totally ignore
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The smart way to learn Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Office OneNote 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007, and Office Word 2007 one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy, numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting help to master the fundamentals of working with the Microsoft Office programs in Office Home and Student 2007, including how to navigate the new user interface. You will discover how to create, edit, and proofread documents and create polished presentations that you can really be proud of. You ll also learn how to create spreadsheets and quickly calculate data. Plus learn how to digitally manage all of your notes so that you can easily find them and take action! With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes a companion CD with hands-on practice files.
Key Book Benefits:
Learn how to use Office Home and Student 2007 by taking just the lessons you need or by working from cover to cover you set the pace.
Includes coverage of the fundamentals for working with Excel 2007, OneNote 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Word 20007 including creating attractive documents and presentations, organizing data and performing calculations, and digitally managing your notes.
Features easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on skill-building exercises.
Includes a companion CD with practice files and other resources.
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From top Academy-Award-winning entertainment industry artist Doug Chiang, who has worked on such film properties as Star Wars, War of the Worlds, Terminator and Back to the Future.
Foreword by film industry heavyweight Robert Zemeckis (Monster House, The Polar Express, Back to the Future, Beowulf).
In this stunning collection of step-by-step lessons, award-winning entertainment artist Doug Chiang gives artists the inside scoop on his processes, techniques, and theories for creating eye-popping science fiction artwork. Readers will learn to draw the creatures, robots, vehicles and drama of distant worlds–perennial favorites in film, television, toys and games. With Chiang’s expert advice, 25 step-by-step demonstrations using both traditional and digital techniques, and a stunning gallery showcasing his amazing visual style, artists have no choice but to be inspired to create their own phenomenal works of art..
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