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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

OpenGL animation

In the previous recipes, we used the wxPython and PyGLet frameworks to display OpenGL. In this recipe, we will use pure Python and OpenGL to create a red rectangle that bounces within a window that has a blue background.

The examples in this recipe have been translated from the C programming language into Python using the OpenGL SuperBible Fourth Edition as a guide. While the Fourth Edition was published in the year 2007, the OpenGL examples still work and we can use them with Python.

Getting ready

This recipe requires the PyOpenGL package. The first recipe of this chapter,  PyOpenGL transforms our GUI, explains how to install this package.

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