Mastering GUI Programming with Python

Building the GUI

Starting with a copy of your Qt application template from Chapter 4, Building Applications with QMainWindow, let's add our main GUI code into the MainWindow.__init__() method:

        widget = qtw.QWidget(minimumWidth=600)        self.setCentralWidget(widget)        widget.setLayout(qtw.QVBoxLayout())        self.url = qtw.QLineEdit()        self.table = qtw.QTableWidget(columnCount=2, rowCount=5)        self.table.horizontalHeader().setSectionResizeMode(            qtw.QHeaderView.Stretch)        self.table.setHorizontalHeaderLabels(['key', 'value'])        self.fname = qtw.QPushButton(            '(No File)', clicked=self.on_file_btn)        submit = qtw.QPushButton('Submit Post', clicked=self.submit)        response = qtw.QTextEdit(readOnly=True) for w in (self.url, self.table, self.fname, submit, response): ...