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Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition Use recipes to develop responsive and powerful GUIs using Tkinter

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129450
Length 444 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Burkhard Meier Burkhard Meier
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets 2. Layout Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Look and Feel Customization 4. Data and Classes 5. Matplotlib Charts 6. Threads and Networking 7. Storing Data in our MySQL Database via our GUI 8. Internationalization and Testing 9. Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library 10. Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet 11. Best Practices

Creating our GUI in wxPython


In this recipe, we will start creating our Python GUIs using the wxPython GUI toolkit.

We will first recreate several of the widgets we previously created using tkinter, which ships with Python.

Then, we will explore some of the widgets the wxPython GUI toolkit offers, which are not that easy to create by using tkinter.

Getting ready

The previous recipe showed you how to install the correct version of wxPython that matches both your version of Python and the OS you are running.

How to do it…

A good place to start exploring the wxPython GUI toolkit is by going to the following URL: http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/gallery.html

This web page displays many wxPython widgets and, by clicking on any of them, we are taken to their documentation, which is a very helpful feature to quickly learn about a wxPython control:

The following screenshot shows the documentation for a wxPython button widget:

We can very quickly create a working window that comes with a title, a menu...

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