Python GUI programming cookbook : develop beautiful and powerful GUIs using the Python programming language / Burkhard A. Meier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meier, Burkhard A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems)--Programming.

Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems).

Python (Computer program language).

Object-oriented programming (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Python graphical user interface programming cookbook

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Meier Burkhard: Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA. He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course. He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course. In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team. When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.

Summary:

Master over 80 object-oriented recipes to create amazing GUIs in Python and revolutionize your applications today About This Book Use object-oriented programming to develop amazing GUIs in Python Create a working GUI project as a central resource for developing your Python GUIs Easy-to-follow recipes to help you develop code using the latest released version of Python Who This Book Is For This book is for intermediate Python programmers who wish to enhance their Python skills by writing powerful GUIs in Python. As Python is such a great and easy to learn language, this book is also ideal for any developer with experience of other languages and enthusiasm to expand their horizon. 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 In Detail 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. Style and approach This programming cookbook consists of standalone recipes, and this approach makes it unique.. While each recipe explains a certain concept, throughout the book you’ll build a more and more advanced GUI, recipe after recipe. In some of the advanced topics, we simply create a new GUI in order to explore these topics in depth. Downloading the example code for...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets

Introduction

Creating our first Python GUI

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

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

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

How it works….

There's more…

Creating tabbed widgets

Using the grid layout manager

Getting ready…

Chapter 3: Look and Feel Customization

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

How to do it...

Relief, sunken and raised appearance of widgets

Creating tooltips using Python

Adding a progressbar to the GUI

How to use the canvas widget

Chapter 4: Data and Classes

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

Creating beautiful charts using Matplotlib

Installing Matplotlib using pip with whl extension

How to do it….

How it works…

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

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

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

Chapter 8: Internationalization and Testing

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

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

Chapter 10: Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet

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

Chapter 11: Best Practices

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

Index.

Notes:

Previous edition published: 2015.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed June 23, 2017).

ISBN:

9781787129023

1787129020

OCLC:

991530195