[Tutor] Qt book by Rempt

[Yigal Duppen]

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> Wasn't this the book that is marred by its heavy reliance on the commercial
> BlackAdder IDE? I remember that the whole first chapter was devoted to
> gushing about, installing and using BlackAdder...

Not really. It is true that the first five chapters are typical required 
'introduction' stuff (python basics, blackadder installation etc) , but the 
interesting part of the book doesn't mention BlackAdder at all...

Just using Qt Designer (great tool!) and emacs (ditto!) you can do everything 
the author does. 

Even funnier, Chapter 11 (Qt Designer, BlackAdder and uic) is very careful; 
all the BlackAdder features that are used are also explained using only Qt 
Designer and pyuic. 

As of Chapter 12, it is actually one of the best books on GUI programming I 
ever read. Instead of showing a window with a button, then showing a window 
with an input, then showing etc etc, Rempt uses the next 10 chapters to 
create a cool editor from scratch, explaining nice Qt concepts on the way. 
These 10 chapters are great fun to read and they really tie it all together. 
Without mentioning BlackAdder at all. 

> A shame, actually, because I keep hearing a lot of good stuff about Qt and
> am slowly getting fed up with Tkinter...

In my opinion, Qt is really nice, Qt Designer is a really good UI tool and 
Rempt's book is a really good book on PyQt.

Hope this convinces you :)
YDD
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