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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming Cookbook Over 80 object-oriented recipes to help you create mind-blowing GUIs in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785283758
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st 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 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 Index

Trying to embed our tkinter GUI code into wxPython


In this recipe, we will go in the opposite direction to the previous recipe and try to call our tkinter GUI code from within a wxPython GUI.

Getting ready

We will reuse some of the wxPython GUI code we created in a previous recipe in this chapter.

How to do it...

We will start from a simple wxPython GUI, which looks like this:

Next, we will try to invoke a simple tkinter GUI.

This is the entire code to do this in a simple, non-OOP way:

#=============================================================
def tkinterApp():
    import tkinter as tk
    from tkinter import ttk
    win = tk.Tk()    
    win.title("Python GUI")
    aLabel = ttk.Label(win, text="A Label")
    aLabel.grid(column=0, row=0)    
    ttk.Label(win, text="Enter a name:").grid(column=0, row=0)
    name = tk.StringVar()
    nameEntered = ttk.Entry(win, width=12, textvariable=name)
    nameEntered.grid(column=0, row=1)
    nameEntered.focus()  
    def buttonCallback():
        action...
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