Python GUI Programming Cookbook · 3rd Edition by Meier, Burkhard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright and Credits

Python GUI Programming Cookbook Third Edition

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Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets

Creating our first Python GUI

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Preventing the GUI from being resized

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Adding a label to the GUI form

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Creating buttons and changing their text attributes

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Creating textbox widgets

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Setting the focus to a widget and disabling widgets

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Creating combobox widgets

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Creating a check button with different initial states

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using radio button widgets

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Using scrolled text widgets

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Adding several widgets in a loop

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Layout Management

Arraning several labels within a label frame widget

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also…

Using padding to add space around widgets

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Dynamically expanding the GUI using widgets

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Aligning GUI widgets by embedding frames within frames

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Creating menu bars

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Creating tabbed widgets

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using the grid layout manager

Getting ready… How to do it… How it works…

Look and Feel Customization

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… How it works…

How to create the title of a tkinter window form

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Changing the icon of the main root window

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using a spin box control

Getting ready How to do it... How it works…

Applying relief – the sunken and raised appearance of widgets

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Creating tooltips using Python

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Adding Progressbar to the GUI

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

How to use the canvas widget

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Data and Classes

How to use StringVar()

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

How to get data from a widget

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using module-level global variables

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

How coding in classes can improve the GUI

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Writing callback functions

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Creating reusable GUI components

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Matplotlib Charts

Installing Matplotlib using pip with the .whl extension

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Creating our first chart

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Placing labels on charts

Getting ready How to do it... How it works…

How to give the chart a legend

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Scaling charts

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Adjusting the scale of charts dynamically

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Threads and Networking

How to create multiple threads

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Starting a thread

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Stopping a thread

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

How to use queues

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Passing queues among different modules

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

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

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using urlopen to read data from websites

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Storing Data in Our MySQL Database via Our GUI

Installing and connecting to a MySQL server from Python 

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Configuring the MySQL database connection

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Designing the Python GUI database

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using the SQL INSERT command

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using the SQL UPDATE command

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using the SQL DELETE command

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Storing and retrieving data from our MySQL database

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using MySQL Workbench

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Internationalization and Testing

Displaying widget text in different languages

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Changing the entire GUI language all at once

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Localizing the GUI

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Preparing the GUI for internationalization

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

How to design a GUI in an agile fashion

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Do we need to test the GUI code?

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Setting debug watches

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Configuring different debug output levels

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Creating self-testing code using Python's __main__ section

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Creating robust GUIs using unit tests

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

How to write unit tests using the Eclipse PyDev IDE

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library

Installing the wxPython library

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Creating our GUI in wxPython

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Quickly adding controls using wxPython

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

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

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Trying to embed our tkinter GUI code into wxPython

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using Python to control two different GUI frameworks

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Communicating between the two connected GUIs

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Building GUIs with PyQt5

Installing PyQt5

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Installing the PyQt5 Designer tool

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Writing our first PyQt5 GUI

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Changing the title of the GUI

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Refactoring our code into object-oriented programming

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Inheriting from QMainWindow

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Adding a status bar widget

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Adding a menu bar widget

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Starting the PyQt5 Designer tool

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Previewing the form within the PyQt5 Designer

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Saving the PyQt5 Designer form

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Converting Designer .ui code into .py code

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Understanding the converted Designer code

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Building a modular GUI design

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Adding another menu item to our menu bar

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Connecting functionality to the Exit menu item

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Adding a Tab Widget via the Designer

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Using layouts in the Designer

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Adding buttons and labels in the Designer

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Best Practices

Avoiding spaghetti code

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using __init__ to connect modules

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Mixing fall-down and OOP coding

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using a code naming convention

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more...

When not to use OOP

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

How to use design patterns successfully

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Avoiding complexity

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

GUI design using multiple notebooks

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

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