Archive for May 22nd, 2010

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Sat 22 May 2010

A Quick EasyGui Tutorial

Posted by Mike under Cross-Platform, Python
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Earlier this week, I was reading my copy of “Hello World” by Warren D. Sande and Carter Sande and in its chapter on graphical user interfaces, it mentioned a library called EasyGui. It’s the first and only Python GUI project I’ve seen that’s not event-driven. Instead, EasyGui is basically a set of dialogs that can be opened on demand. This package would be handy for command line programs that need to get information from the user using a dialog or for teaching new programmers about simple GUIs. Let’s take a quick look at what EasyGui can do. We’ll use some of the examples from the book. (more…)

 

Sat 22 May 2010

wxPython and Threads

Posted by Mike under Cross-Platform, Python, wxPython
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If you use GUIs in Python much, then you know that sometimes you need to execute some long running process every now and then. Of course, if you do that as you would with a command line program, then you’ll be in for a surprise. In most cases, you’ll end up blocking your GUI’s event loop and the user will see your program freeze. What can you do to get around just mishaps? Start the task in another thread or process of course! In this article, we’ll look at how to do this with wxPython and Python’s threading module. (more…)