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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 2. Layout Management FREE CHAPTER 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

Trying to embed a main wxPython app in a main tkinter app

Now that we have created the same GUI using both Python's built-in tkinter library as well as the wxPython wrapper of the wxWidgets library, we really would like to combine the GUIs we created using these technologies.

Both the wxPython and the tkinter libraries have their own advantages. In online forums, such as http://stackoverflow.com/, we often see questions such as which one is better, which GUI toolkit should I use, and so on. This suggests that we have to make an either-or decision. In reality, we do not have to make such a decision.

One of the main challenges in doing so is that each GUI toolkit must have its own event loop. In this recipe, we will try to embed a simple wxPython GUI by calling it from our tkinter GUI.

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