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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming Cookbook Develop functional and responsive user interfaces with tkinter and PyQt5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838827540
Length 486 pages
Edition 3rd 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 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. Building GUIs with PyQt5 11. Best Practices 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using padding to add space around widgets

Our GUI is coming along nicely. Next, we will improve the visual aspects of our widgets by adding a little space around them so that they can breathe.

Getting ready

While tkinter might have had a reputation for creating not-so-pretty GUIs, this has dramatically changed since version 8.5.

To better understand the major improvements to Tk, the following is a quote from the official website; you can find it at the following link: https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/onepage.html:

"This tutorial is designed to help people get up to speed quickly with building mainstream desktop graphical user interfaces with Tk, and in particular Tk 8.5 and 8.6. Tk 8.5 was an incredibly significant milestone...
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Python GUI Programming Cookbook - Third Edition
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