Python GUI Programming Cookbook Over 80 Object-Oriented Recipes to Help You Create Mind-blowing GUIs in Python

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Main Author: Meier, Burkhard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham Packt Publishing, Limited 2015
Edition:1
Subjects:
Computer security
ISBN:9781785283758, 1785283758
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Table of Contents:
  • Using bitmaps to make our GUI pretty -- PyGLet transforms our GUI more easily than PyOpenGL -- Our GUI in amazing colors -- Creating a slideshow using tkinter -- Chapter 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 -- Index
  • Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- How to use the canvas widget -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 5: Matplotlib Charts -- Introduction -- Creating beautiful charts using Matplotlib -- Matplotlib - downloading modules using pip -- Matplotlib - downloading modules with whl extensions -- Creating our first chart -- Placing labels on charts
  • How to give the chart a legend -- Scaling charts -- Adjusting the scale of charts dynamically -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 7: Storing Data in Our MySQL Database via Our GUI -- Introduction -- Connecting to a MySQL database from Python -- Configuring the MySQL 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 9: Extending Our GUI with the wxPython library -- Introduction -- How to install the wxPython library -- How to create 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 -- How to use Python to control two different GUI frameworks -- How to communicate between the two connected GUIs -- Chapter 10: Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet -- Introduction -- PyOpenGL transforms our GUI -- Our GUI in 3D!