Python GUI Programming Cookbook - Second Edition电子书

Title Page

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets

Introduction

Creating our first Python GUI

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

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Preventing the GUI from being resized

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How to do it...

How it works...

Adding a label to the GUI form

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Creating buttons and changing their text property

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How to do it...

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Text box widgets

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Setting the focus to a widget and disabling widgets

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How to do it...

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Combo box widgets

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How to do it...

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Creating a check button with different initial states

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Using radio button widgets

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How to do it...

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Using scrolled text widgets

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Adding several widgets in a loop

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How to do it...

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Layout Management

Introduction

Arranging several labels within a label frame widget

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Using padding to add space around widgets

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How to do it...

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How widgets dynamically expand the GUI

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Aligning the GUI widgets by embedding frames within frames

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How to do it...

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Creating menu bars

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How to do it...

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Creating tabbed widgets

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Using the grid layout manager

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How to do it...

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Look and Feel Customization

Introduction

Creating message boxes - information, warning, and error

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

How to create independent message boxes

Getting ready

How to do it...

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How to create the title of a tkinter window form

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Changing the icon of the main root window

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How to do it...

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Using a spin box control

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Relief, sunken and raised appearance of widgets

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Creating tooltips using Python

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Adding a progressbar to the GUI

Getting ready

How to do it...

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How to use the canvas widget

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How to do it...

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Data and Classes

Introduction

How to use StringVar()

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How to do it...

How it works...

How to get data from a widget

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How to do it...

How it works...

Using module-level global variables

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How to do it...

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How coding in classes can improve the GUI

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How to do it...

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Writing callback functions

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How to do it...

How it works...

Creating reusable GUI components

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Matplotlib Charts

Introduction

Creating beautiful charts using Matplotlib

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Installing Matplotlib using pip with whl extension

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How to do it...

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Creating our first chart

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Placing labels on charts

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How to do it...

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How to give the chart a legend

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Scaling charts

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Adjusting the scale of charts dynamically

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Threads and Networking

Introduction

How to create multiple threads

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Starting a thread

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How to do it...

How it works...

Stopping a thread

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How to do it...

How it works...

How to use queues

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How to do it...

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Passing queues among different modules

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How to do it...

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Using dialog widgets to copy files to your network

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using TCP/IP to communicate via networks

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How to do it...

How it works...

Using urlopen to read data from websites

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How to do it...

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Storing Data in our MySQL Database via our GUI

Introduction

Installing and connecting to a MySQL server from Python

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring the MySQL database connection

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How to do it...

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Designing the Python GUI database

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How to do it...

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Using the SQL INSERT command

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Using the SQL UPDATE command

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Using the SQL DELETE command

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Storing and retrieving data from our MySQL database

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Using the MySQL workbench

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Internationalization and Testing

Introduction

Displaying widget text in different languages

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Changing the entire GUI language, all at once

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Localizing the GUI

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Preparing the GUI for internationalization

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How to design a GUI in an agile fashion

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Do we need to test the GUI code?

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Setting debug watches

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Configuring different debug output levels

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Creating self-testing code using Python's __main__ section

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Creating robust GUIs using unit tests

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How to write unit tests using the Eclipse PyDev IDE

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Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library

Introduction

Installing the wxPython library

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How to do it...

How it works...

Creating our GUI in wxPython

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How to do it...

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Quickly adding controls using wxPython

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How to do it...

How it works...

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

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How to do it...

How it works...

Trying to embed our tkinter GUI code into wxPython

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Using Python to control two different GUI frameworks

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Communicating between the two connected GUIs

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Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet

Introduction

PyOpenGL transforms our GUI

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Our GUI in 3D!

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Using bitmaps to make our GUI pretty

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PyGLet transforms our GUI easier than PyOpenGL

How to do it...

How it works...

Our GUI in amazing colors

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How it works...

OpenGL animation

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How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a slide show using tkinter

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How to do it...

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Best Practices

Introduction

Avoiding spaghetti code

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Using __init__ to connect modules

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Mixing fall-down and OOP coding

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Using a code naming convention

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When not to use OOP

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How to use design patterns successfully

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Avoiding complexity

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GUI design using multiple notebooks

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