Before you read on make sure that you can do Object Oriented programming, recursive programming, conditional programming and loops in Python. If not please check out my previous posts for an excellent tutorial.
Since basic python programming has been covered at various places we shall move onto developing GUI-driven applications in Python using the Qt library.
This guide assumes that you are working on a Gnu/Linux Platform ( Though the code you develop can run both on Mac and Windows as well) and that you have the following packages installed:
- python 2.4 (or above)
- python 2.4-dev (or above)
- python-qt4
- python-qt4-dev
- python-qt4-sql
- qt4
- qt4-designer
- qt4-dev-tools
- mysql-common
- mysql-admin
- mysql-client
Once you have all that you are ready to go.
Open up your terminal and type in: >>designer-qt4
The Qt4 designer pops up:
The Qt designer shall be our basic tool.
Details to follow……….

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