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Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Burkhard Meier
Book Image

Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Burkhard Meier

Overview of this book

Python is a multi-domain, interpreted programming language. It is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It is often used as a scripting language because of its forgiving syntax and compatibility with a wide variety of different eco-systems. Python GUI Programming Cookbook follows a task-based approach to help you create beautiful and very effective GUIs with the least amount of code necessary. This book will guide you through the very basics of creating a fully functional GUI in Python with only a few lines of code. Each and every recipe adds more widgets to the GUIs we are creating. While the cookbook recipes all stand on their own, there is a common theme running through all of them. As our GUIs keep expanding, using more and more widgets, we start to talk to networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance our GUI’s functionality. This book is what you need to expand your knowledge on the subject of GUIs, and make sure you’re not missing out in the long run.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

PyGLet transforms our GUI easier than PyOpenGL


In this recipe, we will use the PyGLet GUI development framework to create our GUIs.

PyGLet is easier to use than PyOpenGL, as it comes with its own GUI event loop, so we do not need to use tkinter or wxPython to create our GUI.

How to do it…

In order to use PyGLet, we first have to install this third-party Python plugin.

Using the pip command, we can easily install the library, and a successful installation looks like this in our site-packages Python folder:

The online documentation is located at the https://pyglet.readthedocs.org/en/pyglet-1.2-maintenance/ website for the current release:

A first experience using the pyglet library may look as follows:

import pyglet 
window = pyglet.window.Window() 
label = pyglet.text.Label('PyGLet GUI',  
                          font_size=42, 
                          x=window.width//2, y=window.height//2, 
                          anchor_x='center', anchor_y='center') 
@window.event 
def on_draw(): 
    window...