[PyKDE] PyQt book

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

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