Python GUI Toolkits

eBook Review: Creating Apps in Kivy

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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wxPython 2.9 and the Newer Pubsub API: A Simple Tutorial

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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wxPython: How to Communicate with Your GUI via sockets

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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PySide: Creating a Currency Converter

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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wxPython: How to Get Children Widgets from a Sizer

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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wxPython: How to make “flashing text”

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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