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Burkhard Meier
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Burkhard Meier

Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA. He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course. He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course. In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team. When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.
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Adding a status bar widget

In this recipe, we will start to add widgets to the GUI we created previously. We will start by adding a status bar. This is a widget that comes built in with PyQt5, so all we have to do is use it.

Getting ready

We will extend the GUI from the previous recipe, so read the previous recipe in order to understand the code we are writing here.

How to do it...

Let's get started:

  1. Create a new module and name it GUI_PyQt5_statusbar.py.
  2. Write the exact same code from the previous recipe, which can be found in GUI_PyQt5_QMainWindow.py.

  1. Create...
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Burkhard Meier

Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA. He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course. He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course. In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team. When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.
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