<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thank you for this information. I will end up buying the book because for a non C++ programmer like myself...it looks like it will offer more than any other resource for MVC.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thanks,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">-Darin</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David Boddie <david.boddie@met.no><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> pyqt@riverbankcomputing.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:56 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PyQt] PyQt Learning Sources for MVC Pattern and Why Does QT<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On Thu May 30 00:02:34 BST 2013, I wrote:<br>> <br>> On Wednesday 29 May 2013, d hee wrote:<br>> > Thanks, I am thinking about buying the book "Rapid GUI Programming with<br>> > Python and Qt by mark summerfield which was published in 2007". Would 2007<br>> > be up to date enough to use the mapper class? And would it also explain<br>> > delegates? It's pretty pricey so I wanted to make sure before I buy
it.<br>> <br>> It should explain delegates, though I don't remember to what degree it does<br>> so. I imagine it also covers the QDataWidgetMapper class, at least as part<br>> of its coverage of databases, but I would have to check. I'll try and look<br>> at it tomorrow (Thursday) and let you know.<br><br>It seems to contain custom delegates up to a point - it doesn't mention<br>QStyledItemDelegate, but you would use that in the same way as QItemDelegate,<br>which is covered.<br><br>QDataWidgetMapper is also covered. The InformIT page has a number of<br>links in the "Sample Content" tab, including one to a PDF of the index. This<br>is useful to see which classes are covered in the book.<br><br>I seem to remember a discussion about the price of the book on this mailing<br>list a long time ago in which there were references to online retailers that<br>offered discounts on the official price. These days, it seems that the choice<br>of
retailers is more limited than before.<br><br>David<br>_______________________________________________<br>PyQt mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com" href="mailto:PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com">PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com</a><br><a href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt" target="_blank">http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>