Python GUI Programming Cookbook.pdf

【实例简介】Python GUI编程经典书籍

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Chapter 1: Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets 1
    Introduction 1
    Creating our first Python GUI 2
    Preventing the GUI from being resized 4
    Adding a label to the GUI form 6
    Creating buttons and changing their text property 7
    Text box widgets 9
    Setting the focus to a widget and disabling widgets 11
    Combo box widgets 12
    Creating a check button with different initial states 14
    Using radio button widgets 16
    Using scrolled text widgets 18
    Adding several widgets in a loop 20
Chapter 2: Layout Management 23
    Introduction 23
    Arranging several labels within a label frame widget 24
    Using padding to add space around widgets 26
    How widgets dynamically expand the GUI 28
    Aligning the GUI widgets by embedding frames within frames 32
    Creating menu bars 36
    Creating tabbed widgets 41
    Using the grid layout manager 4
Chapter 3: Look and Feel Customization 49
    Introduction 49
    Creating message boxes – information, warning, and error 50
    How to create independent message boxes 53
    How to create the title of a tkinter window form 56
    Changing the icon of the main root window 57
    Using a spin box control 58
    Relief, sunken, and raised appearance of widgets 61
    Creating tooltips using Python 63
    How to use the canvas widget 67
Chapter 4: Data and Classes 69
    Introduction 69
    How to use StringVar() 69
    How to get data from a widget 73
    Using module-level global variables 75
    How coding in classes can improve the GUI 79
    Writing callback functions 85
    Creating reusable GUI components 86
Chapter 5: Matplotlib Charts 91
    Introduction 91
    Creating beautiful charts using Matplotlib 92
    Matplotlib – downloading modules using pip 94
    Matplotlib – downloading modules with whl extensions 98
    Creating our first chart 100
    Placing labels on charts 102
    How to give the chart a legend 106
    Scaling charts 109
    Adjusting the scale of charts dynamically 112
Chapter 6: Threads and Networking 117
    Introduction 117
    How to create multiple threads 118
    Starting a thread 121
    Stopping a thread 125
    How to use queues 128
    Passing queues among different modules 133
    Using dialog widgets to copy files to your network 136
    Using TCP/IP to communicate via networks 145
    Using URLOpen to read data from websites 147
Chapter 7: Storing Data in Our MySQL Database via Our GUI 153
    Introduction 153
    Connecting to a MySQL database from Python 154
    Configuring the MySQL connection 157
    Designing the Python GUI database 161
    Using the SQL INSERT command 168
    Using the SQL UPDATE command 172
    Using the SQL DELETE command 177
    Storing and retrieving data from our MySQL database 181
Chapter 8: Internationalization and Testing 187
    Introduction 187
    Displaying widget text in different languages 188
    Changing the entire GUI language all at once 191
    Localizing the GUI 196
    Preparing the GUI for internationalization 201
    How to design a GUI in an agile fashion 204
    Do we need to test the GUI code? 208
    Setting debug watches 212
    Configuring different debug output levels 216
    Creating self-testing code using
    Python's __main__ section 220
    Creating robust GUIs using unit tests 224
    How to write unit tests using the Eclipse PyDev IDE 229
Chapter 9: Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library 235
    Introduction 235
    How to install the wxPython library 236
    How to create our GUI in wxPython 239
    Quickly adding controls using wxPython 244
    Trying to embed a main wxPython app in a main tkinter app 251
    Trying to embed our tkinter GUI code into wxPython 253
    How to use Python to control two different GUI frameworks 256
    How to communicate between the two connected GUIs 260
Chapter 10: Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet 265
    Introduction 265
    PyOpenGL transforms our GUI 266
    Our GUI in 3D! 270
    Using bitmaps to make our GUI pretty 275
    PyGLet transforms our GUI more easily than PyOpenGL 279
    Our GUI in amazing colors 283
    Creating a slideshow using tkinter 286