Python GUI Programming Cookbook: Over 80 object-oriented recipes to help you create mind-blowing GUIs in Python

by Burkhard a Meier

Overview

Over 80 object-oriented recipes to help you create mind-blowing GUIs in Python

Key Features

• Use object-oriented programming to develop amazing GUIs in Python
• Create a working GUI project as a central resource for developing your Python GUIs
• Packed with easy-to-follow recipes to help you develop code using the latest released version of Python

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. Its flexible syntax enables developers to write short scripts while at the same time, they can use object-oriented concepts to develop very large projects.

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 uses the simplest programming style, using the fewest lines of code to create a GUI in Python, and then advances to using object-oriented programming in later chapters. If you are new to object-oriented programming (OOP), this book will teach you how to take advantage of the OOP coding style in the context of creating GUIs written in Python.

Throughout the book, you will develop an entire GUI application, building recipe upon recipe, connecting the GUI to a database. In the later chapters, you will explore additional Python GUI frameworks, using best practices. You will also learn how to use threading to ensure your GUI doesn't go unresponsive.

By the end of the book, you will be an expert in Python GUI programming to develop a common set of GUI applications.

What you will learn

• Create amazing GUIs with Python's built-in Tkinter module
• Customize the GUIs by using layout managers to arrange the GUI widgets
• Advance to an object-oriented programming style using Python
• Develop beautiful charts using the free Matplotlib Python module
• Use threading in a networked environment to make the GUIs responsive
• Discover ways to connect the GUIs to a database
• Understand how unit tests can be created and internationalize the GUI
• Extend the GUIs with free Python frameworks using best practices

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785283758
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	11/30/2015
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Burkhard A. Meier has more than 15 years of professional experience working in the software industry as a software tester and developer, specializing in software test automation development, execution, and analysis. He has a very strong background in SQL relational database administration, the development of stored procedures, and debugging code. While experienced in Visual Studio .NET C#, Visual Test, TestComplete, and other testing languages (such as C/C++), the main focus of the author over the past two years has been developing test automation written in Python 3 to test the leading edge of FLIR ONE infrared cameras for iPhone and Android smart phones as well as handheld tablets. Being highly appreciative of art, beauty, and programming, the author developed GUIs in C# and Python to streamline everyday test automation tasks, enabling these automated tests to run unattended for weeks, collecting very useful data to be analyzed and automatically plotted into graphs and e-mailed to upper management upon completion of nightly automated test runs. His previous jobs include working as a senior test automation engineer and designer for InfoGenesis (now Agilysys), QAD, InTouch Health, and presently, FLIR Systems. You can get in touch with him through his LinkedIn account, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/burkhard-meier/5/246/296.

Table of Contents

1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets
2. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets
3. Introduction
4. Creating our first Python GUI
5. Preventing the GUI from being resized
6. Adding a label to the GUI form
7. Creating buttons and changing their text property
8. Text box widgets
9. Setting the focus to a widget and disabling widgets
10. Combo box widgets
11. Creating a check button with different initial states
12. Using radio button widgets
13. Using scrolled text widgets
14. Adding several widgets in a loop
15. Layout Management
16. Look and Feel Customization
17. Data and Classes
18. Matplotlib Charts
19. Threads and Networking
20. Storing Data in Our MySQL Database via Our GUI
21. Internationalization and Testing
22. Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library
23. Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet
24. Best Practices