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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

Using the grid layout manager

The grid layout manager is one of the most useful layout tools at our disposal. While layout tools such as pack are simple and easy to use, grid gives us a lot of control over our layout – especially when we combine grid with embedded frames.

We have already used it in many recipes, for example, because it is just so powerful.

Getting ready...

In this recipe, we will review some grid layout manager techniques. We have already used them, but we will explore them in more detail here.

How to do it...

In this chapter, we have created rows...

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Python GUI Programming Cookbook - Third Edition
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