Beginning PyQt: A Hands-on Approach to GUI Programming

© Joshua M. Willman 2020

J. M. WillmanBeginning PyQthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5857-6_6

6. Styling Your GUIs

Joshua M. Willman¹ 

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Hampton, VA, USA

 

The GUIs you have created up until now have all focused mainly on function and less on appearance and customization. Creating a layout to organize widgets in a coherent manner is just as important as modifying the look and feel of each and every widget. By choosing the right styles, colors, and fonts, a user can also more easily navigate their way around a user interface.

In this chapter, we will be taking a look at why customizing the look of widgets, windows, and actions is also necessary for designing great GUIs.

In the final section of the chapter, we will take another look at event handling ...