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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Textual-cogs is a collection of Textual dialogs that you can use in your Textual application. You can see a quick demo of the dialogs below: Dialogs included so far: Generic MessageDialog – shows messages to the user SaveFileDialog – gives the user a way to select a location to save a file SingleChoiceDialog – gives the user a series
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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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Textual is a Python package used to create cross-platform Text User Interfaces (TUI). This may sound like you’ll be creating a user interface with ASCII-art, but that is not the case. Textual is quite advanced and allows you to add widgets to your terminal applications, including buttons, context switchers, scroll bars, checkboxes, inputs and more.
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The PySimpleGUI project has a lot of interesting demos included with their project that you can use to learn how to use PySimpleGUI. The demos cover all the basic widgets as far as I can tell and they also cover the recommended design patterns for the package. In addition, there are a couple of games
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I recently came across a fun little project called EasyGUI_Qt. It’s basically the same thing as EasyGUI except that it uses PyQt4 instead of Tkinter. The idea behind both of these packages is to allow the developer to ask the user simple questions using dialogs. In this article, we’ll spend some time learning how to
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Fabio Zadrozny, the primary developer behind PyDev has started a campaign on Indiegogo to fund continuing development of PyDev. In case you’re new to Python development, PyDev is a plugin for Eclipse that provides a nice Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Python, Jython and IronPython in the Eclipse environment. You can read about why Fabio
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This week, I finished editing another book for Packt Publishing. The book’s name is Python Graphics Cookbook by Mike Ohlson de Fine (I think). You may wonder why I don’t know if de Fine is the author. Well, Packt thinks that its Technical Editors shouldn’t know that information. In fact, Packt is so cagey (and
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The other day, I received a complaint that my original notebook example in my Book control series was too complicated. I don’t really write just n00b-friendly articles and never claimed to, but this comment rankled, so I decided to write a super simple example for the wxPython newbies. I hope you like it!
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Earlier this week, I was reading my copy of “Hello World” by Warren D. Sande and Carter Sande and in its chapter on graphical user interfaces, it mentioned a library called EasyGui. It’s the first and only Python GUI project I’ve seen that’s not event-driven. Instead, EasyGui is basically a set of dialogs that can
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