[PyKDE] PyQt book

[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