PySide6 Tutorial Now Available

Hello! With the release of Qt6 versions of PyQt and PySide the course was getting a little crowded. So, today I've split the PySide tutorials into their own standalone PySide2 course and PySide6 course.

The tutorials have all been updated for PySide2 & PySide6, with some additional improvements based on the latest editions of the book.

This first update includes the following PySide6 tutorials —

Getting Started Creating Python GUIs with PySide6

• Creating your first app with PySide A simple Hello World! application with Python and Qt.
• Signals, Slots & Events Triggering actions in response to user behaviors and GUI events.
• Widgets Using PySide's built-in widgets to build your applications.
• Layout management Use layouts to effortlessly position widgets within the window.
• Actions — Toolbars & Menus Defining toolbars, menus and keyboard shortcuts with QAction.
• Dialogs and Alerts Notify your users and ask for their input.

Using Qt Designer with PySide6

• First steps with Qt Designer Use Qt Designer's drag and drop interface to design your GUI.
• Laying Out Your GUIs With Qt Designer Use Qt Designer to effortlessly build your application UI.
• Embedding custom widgets from Qt Designer Learn how to use custom widgets in your PySide6 applications when designing with Qt Designer.
• Creating Dialogs With Qt Designer Using the drag and drop editor to build PySide6 dialogs.
• The QResource System Using the QResource system to package additional data with your applications.

Extended UI Features in PySide6

• System tray & Mac menu bar applications Add quick access functions to your apps.
• Add scrollable regions with QScrollArea Run out of space in your GUI? Add a scrollable region to your application.
• Creating searchable widget dashboards Make dashboard UIs easier to use with widget search & text prediction.
• Transmitting extra data with Qt Signals Modifying widget signals to pass contextual information to slots.
• Creating additional windows Opening new windows for your application.

Multithreading PySide6 Applications with QThreadPool & QProcess

• Multithreading PySide6 applications with QThreadPool Run background tasks concurrently without impacting your UI.
• Using QProcess to run external programs Run background programs without impacting your UI.

Qt Model Views in PySide6

• The ModelView Architecture Qt's MVC-like interface for displaying data in views.
• Displaying tabular data in ModelViews Create customized table views with conditional formatting, numpy and pandas data sources.

PySide6 Plotting & Graphics with Matplotlib and PyQtGraph

• Plotting with PyQtGraph Create custom plots in PySide6 with PyQtGraph.
• Plotting with Matplotlib Create PySide6 plots with the popular Python plotting library.

Bitmap Graphics and Custom Widgets in PySide6

• QPainter and Bitmap Graphics Introduction to the core features of QPainter.
• Creating custom GUI widgets in PySide6 Build a completely functional custom widget from scratch using QPainter.

Packaging PySide6 Applications for Distribution

• Packaging PySide2 applications for Windows, with PyInstaller Turn your Qt5 application into a distributable installer for Windows.
• Packaging PySide apps with fbs Distribute cross-platform GUI applications with the fman Build System.

That's all for now!

You can also still access the PyQt5 tutorial and PyQt6 tutorial.