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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

Look and Feel Customization

In this chapter, we will customize some of the widgets in our GUI by changing some of their attributes. We will also introduce a few new widgets that tkinter offers us.

In the Creating tooltips using Python recipe, we will create a ToolTip OOP-style class, which will be a part of the single Python module that we have been using until now.

You will learn how to create different message boxes, change the GUI window title, and much more. We will be using a spin box control to learn how to apply different styles.

Look and feel customization is a very important part of GUI design because it makes our GUI look professional.

Here is the overview of the Python modules for this chapter:

In this chapter, we will customize our GUI using Python 3.7 and above. We will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating message boxes – the information, warning, and error...
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