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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

Introduction


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

The grid layout manager is one of the most important layout tools built into tkinter that we will be using.

We can very easily create menu bars, tabbed controls (aka Notebooks), and many more widgets using tk.

One widget that is missing out of the box from tk is a status bar.

In this chapter, we will not bother to hand-craft this widget, but it can be done.

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