Mastering GUI Programming with Python

QWidget as a top-level window

When a QWidget is created without a parent and its show() method is called, it becomes a top-level window. When we use it as a top-level window, such as we do with our MainWindow instance, there are some window-specific properties we can set. Some of these are shown in the following table:

Property	Argument type	Description
windowTitle	string	The title of the window.
windowIcon	QIcon	The icon for the window.
modal	Boolean	Whether the window is modal.
cursor	Qt.CursorShape	The cursor used when this widget has hovered.
windowFlags	Qt.WindowFlags	How the OS should treat the window (dialog, tooltip, popup).

The argument type for cursor is an example of an enum. An enum is simply a list of named ...