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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 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. Building GUIs with PyQt5 11. Best Practices 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating reusable GUI components

We will create reusable GUI components using Python. In this recipe, we will keep it simple by moving our ToolTip class into its own module. Then, we will import and use it to display tooltips over several widgets of our GUI.

Getting ready

We are building our code from Chapter 3, Look and Feel Customization: GUI_tooltip.py. We will start by breaking out our ToolTip class into a separate Python module.

How to do it...

We will create a new Python module and place the ToolTip class code into it and then import this module into our primary...

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