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Python GUI Programming - A Complete Reference Guide

By : Alan D. Moore, B. M. Harwani
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Python GUI Programming - A Complete Reference Guide

By: Alan D. Moore, B. M. Harwani

Overview of this book

A responsive graphical user interface (GUI) helps you interact with your application, improves user experience, and enhances the efficiency of your applications. With Python, you’ll have access to elaborate GUI frameworks that you can use to build interactive GUIs that stand apart from the rest. This Learning Path begins by introducing you to Tkinter and PyQt, before guiding you through the application development process. As you expand your GUI by adding more widgets, you'll work with networks, databases, and graphical libraries that enhance its functionality. You'll also learn how to connect to external databases and network resources, test your code, and maximize performance using asynchronous programming. In later chapters, you'll understand how to use the cross-platform features of Tkinter and Qt5 to maintain compatibility across platforms. You’ll be able to mimic the platform-native look and feel, and build executables for deployment across popular computing platforms. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have the skills and confidence to design and build high-end GUI applications that can solve real-world problems. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Python GUI Programming with Tkinter by Alan D. Moore Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook by B. M. Harwani
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
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Creating a toolbar that shows different graphics tools

In this recipe, we will learn to create a toolbar that shows three toolbar buttons. These three toolbar buttons show the icons for the line, circle, and rectangle. When the user clicks the line toolbar button from the toolbar, he/she can click and drag the mouse on the form to draw a line between the two mouse locations. Similarly, by clicking on the circle toolbar button, the user can draw a circle on the form by clicking and dragging the mouse.

How to do it…

The focus of this recipe is to help you understand how frequently used commands in an application can be provided to the user via a toolbar, making them easy to access and use. You will learn to create toolbar buttons...