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Kivy Cookbook

You're reading from   Kivy Cookbook Enhance your skills in developing multi-touch applications with Kivy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783987382
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kivy and the Kv Language FREE CHAPTER 2. Input, Motion, and Touch 3. Events 4. Widgets 5. Graphics – Canvas and Instructions 6. Advanced Graphics – Shaders and Rendering 7. The API in Detail 8. Packaging our Apps for PC 9. Kivy for Mobile Devices Index

Using GridLayout


GridLayout is the way to organize the child widgets in a table. In this recipe, we will organize four buttons in a 2x2 grid.

How to do it…

Again we will use the KV file to set the widgets and the Python file to set the layout. To complete the recipe:

  1. In the KV file, provide the number of columns and rows with column and row properties.

  2. Also, define four buttons using the following code:

    <MyW>:
        cols: 2
        rows: 2
        Button:
            id: label1
            text: 'B1'
        Button:
            id: label2
            text: 'B2'
        Button:
            id: label3
            text: 'B3'
        Button:
            id: label4
            text: 'B4'
  3. In the Python file, import GridLayout.

  4. Define the root class as GridLayout. Use the following code to do that:

    import kivy
    
    from kivy.app import App
    from kivy.uix.gridlayout import GridLayout
    
    class MyW(GridLayout):
        pass
    
    class e8App(App):
        def build(self):
            return MyW()
    
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        e8App().run()

How it works…

In the KV file, we are...

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