Textual is a Python framework for creating Text Based user interfaces (TUIs). You can create graphical user interfaces in your terminal with Textual. If you haven’t heard of Textual before, check out An Intro to Textual – Creating Text User Interfaces with Python In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and style a […]
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In this tutorial, I talk about some of Python’s most popular GUI frameworks. You will learn the basics of graphical user interfaces. Then you will learn how to create a simple image viewer using wxPython. Finally, you will see how to rewrite the image viewer using PySimpleGUI. Related Reading Creating an Image Viewer with PySimpleGUI
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The Pillow package lets you draw text on images using Python. This includes using TrueType and OpenType fonts. You have a lot of flexibility when adding this text to your images. If you’d like to know more, you should check out Drawing Text on Images with Pillow and Python. Note: The code and fonts used
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This week I came across someone who was wondering if there was a way to allow the user to edit the contents of a wx.ComboBox. By editing the contents, I mean change the names of the pre-existing choices that the ComboBox contains, not adding new items to the widget. While editing the contents of the
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Qt for Python (i.e. PySide2) was announced recently and got me interested in trying to use it to load up a UI file. If you don’t know, PyQt and PySide / PySide2 can use the Qt Creator application to create user interfaces using a drag-and-drop interface. This is actually very similar to the way you
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The Qt Team recently posted that Qt will now be officially supporting the PySide2 project, which they are calling “Qt for Python”. It will be a complete port of the original PySide, which only supported Qt 4. PySide2 supports Qt 5. Qt for Python will have the following license types: GPL, LGPL and commercial. PySide2
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This week we welcome Bryan Oakley as our PyDev of the Week! I’ve met Bryan a few times in various Python-related forums and developer hangouts online. He’s a master at Tkinter and has answered a lot of questions about it (and Python) of StackOverflow and other places. I hope you will enjoy getting to know
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Kivy is a neat package that allows Python developers to create user interfaces on mobile devices. You can also deploy the applications to desktops too. This is the second book I’ve seen put out on the subject. The first book, Kivy – Interactive Applications in Python by Roberto Ulloa came out last year from Packt
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NOTE: This article is for wxPython 2.9-3.0. If you are using wxPython 4, you should go to my newer article Several years ago, I wrote a tutorial about wxPython 2.8 and its built-in pubsub module which you can read here. Back then, a new API for pubsub was added in wxPython 2.8.11.0 that could be
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I sometimes run into situations where it would be nice to have one of my Python scripts communicate with another of my Python scripts. For example, I might want to send a message from a command-line script that runs in the background to my wxPython GUI that’s running on the same machine. I had heard
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I am currently reading through Mark Summerfield’s book on PyQt, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt and thought it would be fun to take some of the example applications in it and convert them to PySide. So I’ll be creating a series of articles where I’ll show the original PyQt examples from the book
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The other day, I stumbled across a question on StackOverflow asking how to get the children widgets of a BoxSizer. In wxPython, you would expect to call the sizer’s GetChildren() method. However, this returns a list of SizerItems objects rather than a list of the actual widgets themselves. You can see the difference if you
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People keep on asking fun wxPython questions on StackOverflow. Today they wanted to know how to make “flashing text” in wxPython. That’s actually a pretty easy thing to do. Let’s take a look at some simple code: import random import time import wx ######################################################################## class MyPanel(wx.Panel): “””””” #———————————————————————- def __init__(self, parent): “””Constructor””” wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent) self.font
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