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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

PyGLet transforms our GUI more easily than PyOpenGL

In this recipe, we will use the PyGLet GUI development framework to create our GUIs.

PyGLet is easier to use than PyOpenGL as it comes with its own GUI event loop, so we do not need to use tkinter or wxPython to create our GUI.

How to do it...

In order to use Pyglet, we first have to install this third-party Python plugin.

Using the pip command, we can easily install the library and a successful installation looks like this in our site-packages Python folder:

How to do it...

The online documentation is located at this website for the current release:

https://pyglet.readthedocs.org/en/pyglet-1.2-maintenance/

How to do it...

A first experience using the Pyglet library may look like this:

import pyglet

window = pyglet.window.Window()
label = pyglet.text.Label('PyGLet GUI', 
                          font_size=42,
                          x=window.width//2, y=window.height//2,
                          anchor_x='center', anchor_y='center')

@window...
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