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Python GUI Programming Cookbook
Python GUI Programming Cookbook

Python GUI Programming Cookbook: Develop functional and responsive user interfaces with tkinter and PyQt5 , Third Edition

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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

Layout Management

In this chapter, we will explore how to arrange widgets within widgets to create a Python GUI. Learning about the fundamentals of GUI layout design will allow us to create great-looking GUIs. There are certain techniques that will help us achieve this layout design.

The grid layout manager is one of the most important layout tools that we will be using, and is built into tkinter. We can very easily create menu bars, tabbed controls (that is, Notebooks), and many more widgets using tkinter.

By completing this chapter, you will learn how to arrange your widgets to make your GUI look truly great! Learning layout management is fundamental to GUI design, even if you use other programming languages – but Python truly rocks!

The following screenshot provides an overview of the Python modules that will be used in this chapter:

In this chapter, we will lay out...

Arraning several labels within a label frame widget

The LabelFrame widget allows us to design our GUI in an organized fashion. We are still using the grid layout manager as our main layout design tool, but by using LabelFrame widgets, we get much more control over our GUI's design.

Getting ready

We will start by adding more widgets to our GUI. We will make the GUI fully functional in upcoming recipes. Here, we will start to use the LabelFrame widget. We will reuse the GUI from the Adding several widgets to a loop recipe in Chapter 1, Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets.

How to do it...

...

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...

Dynamically expanding the GUI using widgets

You may have noticed from the previous screenshots and by running the preceding code that the widgets can extend themselves to take up as much space as they need in order to visually display their text.

Java introduced the concept of dynamic GUI layout management. In comparison, visual development IDEs, such as VS.NET, lay out the GUI in a visual manner, and basically hard-code the x and y coordinates of the UI elements.

Using tkinter, this dynamic capability creates both an advantage and a little bit of a challenge because, sometimes, our GUI dynamically expands when we would like it not to be so dynamic! Well, we are dynamic Python programmers, so we can figure out how to make the best use of this fantastic behavior!

Getting ready

...

Aligning GUI widgets by embedding frames within frames

We'll have better control of our GUI layout if we embed frames within frames. This is what we will do in this recipe.

Getting ready

The dynamic behavior of Python and its GUI modules can create challenges when we want to make our GUI really look the way we want it to. In this recipe, we will embed frames within frames to get more control of our layout. This will establish a stronger hierarchy among the different UI elements, making the visual appearance easier to achieve.

We will continue using the GUI we created in the previous recipe, Dynamically expanding the GUI using widgets.

Here, we will create a top-level frame that will contain other frames and widgets. This...

Creating menu bars

In this recipe, we will add a menu bar to our main window, add menus to the menu bar, and then add menu items to the menus.

Getting ready

We will start by learning how to add a menu bar, several menus, and a few menu items. In the beginning, clicking on a menu item will have no effect. We will add functionality to the menu items later, for example, closing the main window when clicking the Exit menu item and displaying a Help | About dialog.

We will continue to extend the GUI we created in the previous recipe, Aligning GUI widgets by embedding frames within frames.

How to do it...

...

Creating tabbed widgets

In this recipe, we will create tabbed widgets to further organize our expanding GUI written in tkinter.

Getting ready

To improve our Python GUI using tabs, we will start at the beginning, using as little code as possible. In this recipe, we will create a simple GUI and then add widgets from the previous recipes, placing them in this new tabbed layout.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create Tab controls, which in tkinter are called Notebook:

  1. Create a new Python module and name it GUI_tabbed.py.
  2. At the top of the module, import tkinter:
import...

Using the grid layout manager

The grid layout manager is one of the most useful layout tools at our disposal. While layout tools such as pack are simple and easy to use, grid gives us a lot of control over our layout – especially when we combine grid with embedded frames.

We have already used it in many recipes, for example, because it is just so powerful.

Getting ready...

In this recipe, we will review some grid layout manager techniques. We have already used them, but we will explore them in more detail here.

How to do it...

In this chapter, we have created rows...

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Key benefits

  • Use object-oriented programming to develop impressive GUIs in Python
  • Create interesting charts to visually represent data using Matplotlib
  • Develop GUIs with the latest versions of tkinter, PyQt5, and wxPython frameworks

Description

Python is a multi-domain, interpreted programming language that is easy to learn and implement. With its wide support for frameworks to develop GUIs, you can build interactive and beautiful GUI-based applications easily using Python. This third edition of Python GUI Programming Cookbook follows a task-based approach to help you create effective GUIs with the smallest amount of code. Every recipe in this book builds upon the last to create an entire, real-life GUI application. These recipes also help you solve problems that you might encounter while developing GUIs. This book mainly focuses on using Python’s built-in tkinter GUI framework. You'll learn how to create GUIs in Python using simple programming styles and object-oriented programming (OOP). As you add more widgets and expand your GUI, you will learn how to connect to networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance the functionality of your GUI. You’ll also learn how to use threading to ensure that your GUI doesn't become unresponsive. Toward the end, you’ll learn about the versatile PyQt GUI framework, which comes along with its own visual editor that allows you to design GUIs using drag and drop features. By the end of the book, you’ll be an expert in designing Python GUIs and be able to develop a variety of GUI applications with ease.

Who is this book for?

If you’re a programmer or developer looking to enhance your Python skills by writing powerful GUI applications, this book is for you. Familiarity with the Python programming language is necessary to get the most out of the book.

What you will learn

  • Create amazing GUIs with Python s built-in tkinter module
  • Customize GUIs using layout managers to arrange GUI widgets
  • Advance from the typical waterfall coding style to an OOP style using Python
  • Develop beautiful charts using the free Matplotlib Python module
  • Use threading in a networked environment to make GUIs responsive
  • Discover ways to connect GUIs to a MySQL database
  • Understand how unit tests can be created and internationalize GUI
  • Delve into the world of GUI creation using PyQt5

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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets
Creating our first Python GUI
Preventing the GUI from being resized
Adding a label to the GUI form
Creating buttons and changing their text attributes
Creating textbox widgets
Setting the focus to a widget and disabling widgets
Creating combobox widgets
Creating a check button with different initial states
Using radio button widgets
Using scrolled text widgets
Adding several widgets in a loop
Layout Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Layout Management
Arraning several labels within a label frame widget
Using padding to add space around widgets
Dynamically expanding the GUI using widgets
Aligning GUI widgets by embedding frames within frames
Creating menu bars
Creating tabbed widgets
Using the grid layout manager
Look and Feel Customization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Look and Feel Customization
Creating message boxes – information, warning, and error
How to create independent message boxes
How to create the title of a tkinter window form
Changing the icon of the main root window
Using a spin box control
Applying relief – the sunken and raised appearance of widgets
Creating tooltips using Python
Adding Progressbar to the GUI
How to use the canvas widget
Data and Classes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Data and Classes
How to use StringVar()
How to get data from a widget
Using module-level global variables
How coding in classes can improve the GUI
Writing callback functions
Creating reusable GUI components
Matplotlib Charts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Matplotlib Charts
Installing Matplotlib using pip with the .whl extension
Creating our first chart
Placing labels on charts
How to give the chart a legend
Scaling charts
Adjusting the scale of charts dynamically
Threads and Networking Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Threads and Networking
How to create multiple threads
Starting a thread
Stopping a thread
How to use queues
Passing queues among different modules
Using dialog widgets to copy files to your network
Using TCP/IP to communicate via networks
Using urlopen to read data from websites
Storing Data in Our MySQL Database via Our GUI Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Storing Data in Our MySQL Database via Our GUI
Installing and connecting to a MySQL server from Python
Configuring the MySQL database connection
Designing the Python GUI database
Using the SQL INSERT command
Using the SQL UPDATE command
Using the SQL DELETE command
Storing and retrieving data from our MySQL database
Using MySQL Workbench
Internationalization and Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Internationalization and Testing
Displaying widget text in different languages
Changing the entire GUI language all at once
Localizing the GUI
Preparing the GUI for internationalization
How to design a GUI in an agile fashion
Do we need to test the GUI code?
Setting debug watches
Configuring different debug output levels
Creating self-testing code using Python's __main__ section
Creating robust GUIs using unit tests
How to write unit tests using the Eclipse PyDev IDE
Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library
Installing the wxPython library
Creating our GUI in wxPython
Quickly adding controls using wxPython
Trying to embed a main wxPython app in a main tkinter app
Trying to embed our tkinter GUI code into wxPython
Using Python to control two different GUI frameworks
Communicating between the two connected GUIs
Building GUIs with PyQt5 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building GUIs with PyQt5
Installing PyQt5
Installing the PyQt5 Designer tool
Writing our first PyQt5 GUI
Changing the title of the GUI
Refactoring our code into object-oriented programming
Inheriting from QMainWindow
Adding a status bar widget
Adding a menu bar widget
Starting the PyQt5 Designer tool
Previewing the form within the PyQt5 Designer
Saving the PyQt5 Designer form
Converting Designer .ui code into .py code
Understanding the converted Designer code
Building a modular GUI design
Adding another menu item to our menu bar
Connecting functionality to the Exit menu item
Adding a Tab Widget via the Designer
Using layouts in the Designer
Adding buttons and labels in the Designer
Best Practices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Best Practices
Avoiding spaghetti code
Using __init__ to connect modules
Mixing fall-down and OOP coding
Using a code naming convention
When not to use OOP
How to use design patterns successfully
Avoiding complexity
GUI design using multiple notebooks
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About This BookThis is a cookbook-style book that focuses on the tkinter library. It covers all of the included widgets as well as matplotlib graphs. This book will get you started with GUI development and give you a good idea on how to apply it to your own projects.Who is This For?The author intended this book to be for Python programmers who know nothing of GUI development. I think he did well in that regard, though there seem to be a number of odd asides into Python itself. These can distract the reader from what they really want to know.Why Was This Written?It's hard to write a book on GUI development. There are so many options and each of them could be the subject of a book. This book focuses on a single library, though does discuss two others in their own chapters toward the end. I think that is a smart method, as it gives the reader an idea of what other options there are and how they compare to tkinter.OrganizationThe book is well organized. It starts with simple examples and builds up to complex programs. I'm personally puzzled why this was written in a cookbook style. It reads more like a tutorial that teaches you Python GUI concepts, but breaks the sections into 'recipes'. It works well enough, but should probably be written as a tutorial style book instead.Did This Book Succeed?I think the book was mostly successful. The content is there, but the prose takes away from that. The organization is right where it needs to be, but the use of a cookbook style puzzles me. I know I'll find this book useful, but it may or may not be my primary book for GUI development.Rating and Final ThoughtsI have to give this book a 4 our of 5. It's well done and useful, but the language is sometimes dry. There is no personality showing through, outside of a few occasions. That makes it difficult to work through the book. Otherwise, it's a useful book with a lot to offer for anyone who wants to create a GUI for their project.
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Numerous bugs. One psy (ToolTip) never worked. Screen shots in the first two chapters were inconsistent, The flip side was I had to debug it. Gave up on it after 4 chapters, Really just a set of powerpoint scrreens slapped into a book. No real work problems. I'm sure there are other books describing the tkinter class.
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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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