Textual is a great Python package for creating a lightweight, powerful, text-based user interface. That means you can create a GUI in your terminal with Python without learning curses! But what happens when you encounter some problems that require debugging your application? A TUI takes over your terminal, which means you cannot see anything from […]
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The Textual package is a great way to create GUI-like applications with Python in your terminal. These are known as text-based user interfaces or TUIs. Textual has many different widgets built-in to the framework. One of those widgets is the ProgressBar. If you need to show the progress of a download or long-running process, then
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ObjectListView is a third-party wxPython widget that wraps the wx.ListCtrl. I have used it for over 10 years in quite a few different GUI applications because it works much nicer than wx.ListCtrl does. Unfortunately, ObjectListView was never integrated into wxPython core like some other amazing third-party packages were, and so it has become broken over
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Textual is a Python package that you can use to create beautiful text-based user interfaces (TUIs). In other words, you can create a GUI in your terminal with Textual. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a modal dialog in your terminal. Dialogs are great ways to alert the user about something or
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Textual is a text-based user interface library (TUI) for the Python programming language. With Textual, you can create beautiful cross-platform TUI applications. If you would like more information, see An Intro to Textual – Creating Text User Interfaces with Python In this article, you will learn how to created a tabbed interface in your terminal
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Tic-Tac-Toe game using PySimpleGUI and Python. Download the Code PyTips Code Repo on GitHub
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Learn how to create simple graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with Python and PySimpleGUI in this introductory tutorial. You will learn how to layout Elements (i.e. widgets), add a graph with Matplotlib, and other PySimpleGUI basics
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Learn how to layout your widgets in Kivy, a mobile GUI framework for Python. Kivy is a cross-platform GUI framework that also works on iOS and Android. The examples in this video are based on the code from Kivy 101: How to Use BoxLayouts
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PySimpleGUI is a Python GUI that wraps other Python GUI toolkits (Tkinter, PySide, wxPython). By abstracting away the complexities of the other GUIs into a common API, you can quickly write code that can be rendered using any of those other toolkits just by changing the import at the top of your program. If you
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When you first get started as a programmer or software developer, you usually start by writing code that prints to your console or standard out. A lot of students are also starting out by writing front-end programs, which are typically websites written with HTML, JavaScript and CSS. However, most beginners do not learn how to
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When you create a graphical user interface for your amazing program, you want to add a little bit of yourself to the application. One way to do that is to use images as buttons. While some people find these types of buttons unintuitive because they don’t look like buttons, it is a legitimate way to
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You learned how to create a file search GUI with wxPython in an earlier tutorial. In this article, you will learn how to create a text search utility with wxPython. If you’d like to learn more about creating GUI applications, you should check out my book Creating GUI Applications with wxPython on Leanpub, Gumroad, or
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Have you ever needed to search for a file on your computer? Most operating systems have a way to do this. Windows Explorer has a search function and there’s also a search built-in to the Start Menu now. Other operating systems like Mac and Linux are similar. There are also applications that you can download
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A couple of weeks ago, I was on the Talk Python Podcast to talk about creating desktop applications with wxPython. The recording of that talk was released today. We talked about many of the GUI frameworks in Python before turning out attention to my book, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython. You can listen to the
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Python can be used to read in the common MP4 video format and convert it to an animated GIF. Of course, you can use a pre-built piece of software if you’d rather, but it’s fun (and a good learning experience) to do it yourself. In this tutorial, you will learn the following: How to extract
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