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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 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

Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets

In this chapter, we start creating amazing GUIs using Python 3.6 and above. We will cover the following topics:

  • Creating our first Python GUI
  • Preventing the GUI from being resized
  • Adding a label to the GUI form
  • Creating buttons and changing their text property
  • Text box widgets
  • Setting the focus to a widget and disabling widgets
  • Combo box widgets
  • Creating a check button with different initial states
  • Using radio button widgets
  • Using scrolled text widgets
  • Adding several widgets in a loop
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Published in: May 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781787129450
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