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Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition Use recipes to develop responsive and powerful GUIs using Tkinter

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787129450

Length 444 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Matplotlib

Concepts

GUI Application Development

Author (1):

Burkhard Meier

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

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Preface

1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets FREE CHAPTER

2. Layout Management

3. Look and Feel Customization

4. Data and Classes

5. Matplotlib Charts

6. Threads and Networking

7. Storing Data in our MySQL Database via our GUI

8. Internationalization and Testing

9. Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library

10. Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet

11. Best Practices

Aligning the GUI widgets by embedding frames within frames

We'll have a much better control of our GUI layout if we embed frames within frames. This is what we will do in this recipe.

Getting ready

The dynamic behavior of Python and its GUI modules can create a little bit of a challenge to really get our GUI looking the way we want. Here, we will embed frames within frames to get more control of our layout. This will establish a stronger hierarchy among the different UI elements, making the visual appearance easier to achieve.

We will continue using the GUI we created in the previous recipe, How widgets dynamically expand the GUI.

How to do it…

Here, we will create a top-level frame that will contain other frames and widgets. This will help us get our GUI layout just the way we want.

In order to do so, we will have to embed our current controls within a central frame called ttk.LabelFrame. This frame ttk.LabelFrame is the child of the main parent window and all controls will be the children of...

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Authors (1)

Burkhard Meier

Burkhard Meier

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.

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