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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming Cookbook Over 80 object-oriented recipes to help you create mind-blowing GUIs in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785283758
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Burkhard Meier Burkhard Meier
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets FREE CHAPTER 2. Layout Management 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 Index

Avoiding complexity

In this recipe, we will extend our Python GUI and learn ways to handle the ever-increasing complexity of our software development efforts.

Our co-workers and clients love the GUIs we create in Python and ask for more and more features to add to our GUI.

This increases complexity and can easily ruin our original nice design.

Getting ready

We will create a new Python GUI similar to those in previous recipes and will add many features to it in the form of widgets.

How to do it...

We will start with a Python GUI that has two tabs and looks like this:

How to do it...

The first new feature request we receive is to add functionality to Tab 1, which clears the scrolledtext widget.

Easy enough. We just add another button to Tab 1.

        # Adding another Button
        self.action = ttk.Button(.
self.monty, text="Clear Text", command=self.clearScrol)   
        self.action.grid(column=2, row=2)

We also have to create the callback method to add the desired functionality, which we define towards...

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