Am Samstag, 18. November 2006 09:18 schrieb johnf: > On Friday 17 November 2006 23:33, Mark Summerfield wrote: > > 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. > > that's great! So often you pickup books that cover everything but data > apps. Sounds like your's will be different. > John
Marks Qt3 book does contain a chapter about Qt database programming, btw. Qt3 database programming involves using Q_PROPERTIES (apart from the simplest use cases), which still aren't supported by PyQt. Unfortunately, that makes porting such code much more difficult then usual. Pete _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
