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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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Automating input

Preventing users from entering bad data is one way to help users enter better data; another approach is to automate. Using our understanding of how the forms are likely to be filled out, we can insert values that are very likely to be correct for certain fields.

Remember from Chapter 2, Designing GUI Applications with Tkinter, that the forms are nearly always recorded the same day that they're filled out, and that they're filled out one at a time from Plot 1 to Plot 20 in order. Also remember that the Date, Lab, and Technician values remain the same for each form which is filled in. Let's automate this for our users.

Inserting a date

Inserting the current date is an easy place to start. The place to...