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Book Description
Python is a multi-domain, interpreted programming language. It is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It is often used as a scripting language because of its forgiving syntax and compatibility with a wide variety of different eco-systems. Python GUI Programming Cookbook follows a task-based approach to help you create beautiful and very effective GUIs with the least amount of code necessary.
This book will guide you through the very basics of creating a fully functional GUI in Python with only a few lines of code. Each and every recipe adds more widgets to the GUIs we are creating. While the cookbook recipes all stand on their own, there is a common theme running through all of them. As our GUIs keep expanding, using more and more widgets, we start to talk to networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance our GUI’s functionality. This book is what you need to expand your knowledge on the subject of GUIs, and make sure you’re not missing out in the long run.
What You Will Learn
- Create the GUI Form and add widgets
- Arrange the widgets using layout managers
- Use object-oriented programming to create GUIs
- Create Matplotlib charts
- Use threads and talking to networks
- Talk to a MySQL database via the GUI
- Perform unit-testing and internationalizing the GUI
- Extend the GUI with third-party graphical libraries
- Get to know the best practices to create GUIs
Table of Contents
1: Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets
- Introduction
- Creating our first Python GUI
- Preventing the GUI from being resized
- Adding a label to the GUI form
- Creating buttons and changing their text property
- Text box widgets
- Setting the focus to a widget and disabling widgets
- Combo box widgets
- Creating a check button with different initial states
- Using radio button widgets
- Using scrolled text widgets
- Adding several widgets in a loop
2: Layout Management
- Introduction
- Arranging several labels within a label frame widget
- Using padding to add space around widgets
- How widgets dynamically expand the GUI
- Aligning the GUI widgets by embedding frames within frames
- Creating menu bars
- Creating tabbed widgets
- Using the grid layout manager
3: Look and Feel Customization
- Introduction
- Creating message boxes – information, warning, and error
- How to create independent message boxes
- How to create the title of a tkinter window form
- Changing the icon of the main root window
- Using a spin box control
- Relief, sunken and raised appearance of widgets
- Creating tooltips using Python
- Adding a progressbar to the GUI
- How to use the canvas widget
4: Data and Classes
- Introduction
- How to use StringVar()
- How to get data from a widget
- Using module-level global variables
- How coding in classes can improve the GUI
- Writing callback functions
- Creating reusable GUI components
5: Matplotlib Charts
- Introduction
- Creating beautiful charts using Matplotlib
- Installing Matplotlib using pip with whl extension
- Creating our first chart
- Placing labels on charts
- How to give the chart a legend
- Scaling charts
- Adjusting the scale of charts dynamically
6: Threads and Networking
- Introduction
- How to create multiple threads
- Starting a thread
- Stopping a thread
- How to use queues
- Passing queues among different modules
- Using dialog widgets to copy files to your network
- Using TCP/IP to communicate via networks
- Using urlopen to read data from websites
7: Storing Data in our MySQL Database via our GUI
- Introduction
- Installing and connecting to a MySQL server from Python
- Configuring the MySQL database connection
- Designing the Python GUI database
- Using the SQL INSERT command
- Using the SQL UPDATE command
- Using the SQL DELETE command
- Storing and retrieving data from our MySQL database
- Using the MySQL workbench
8: Internationalization and Testing
- Introduction
- Displaying widget text in different languages
- Changing the entire GUI language, all at once
- Localizing the GUI
- Preparing the GUI for internationalization
- How to design a GUI in an agile fashion
- Do we need to test the GUI code?
- Setting debug watches
- Configuring different debug output levels
- Creating self-testing code using Python's __main__ section
- Creating robust GUIs using unit tests
- How to write unit tests using the Eclipse PyDev IDE
9: Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library
- Introduction
- Installing the wxPython library
- Creating our GUI in wxPython
- Quickly adding controls using wxPython
- Trying to embed a main wxPython app in a main tkinter app
- Trying to embed our tkinter GUI code into wxPython
- Using Python to control two different GUI frameworks
- Communicating between the two connected GUIs
10: Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet
- Introduction
- PyOpenGL transforms our GUI
- Our GUI in 3D!
- Using bitmaps to make our GUI pretty
- PyGLet transforms our GUI easier than PyOpenGL
- Our GUI in amazing colors
- OpenGL animation
- Creating a slide show using tkinter
11: Best Practices
- Introduction
- Avoiding spaghetti code
- Using __init__ to connect modules
- Mixing fall-down and OOP coding
- Using a code naming convention
- When not to use OOP
- How to use design patterns successfully
- Avoiding complexity
- GUI design using multiple notebooks
SKU | 031035S |
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Weight | 2.3310 |
Coming Soon | No |
Days of Training | No |
Audience | Student |
Product Family | Partnerware |
Product Type | Print Courseware |
Electronic | No |
ISBN | 1787129450 |
Language | English |
Page Count | 436 |
Curriculum Library | Python |
Year | No |
Manufacturer's Product Code | No |
Current Revision | 1.0 |
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Revision Notes | No Revision Information Available |
Original Publication Date | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 |
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