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 v0.80.0 was released today, and it included the brand-new MaskedInput widget. If you have used other GUI toolkits, such as wxPython, you might already be familiar with a masked input widget. These widgets allow you to control the user’s input based on a mask string that the developer provides when instantiating the widget. Let’s spend
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Have you ever wanted to create a plot or graph in your terminal? Okay, maybe you haven’t, but now that you know you can, you want to! Python has the plotext package for plotting in your terminal. However, while that package is amazing all on its own, there is another package called textual-plotext that wraps
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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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Have you ever needed a progress bar in your Python command-line application? One great way of creating a progress bar is to use the alive-progress package created by Rogério Sampaio de Almeida! Alive progress provides multiple different types of progress bars in your terminal or IPython REPL session. The alive progress package will work with
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Have you ever wanted to show a pandas DataFrame in your terminal? Of course, you have! All you need is the textual-pandas package! Yes, you can also view a pandas DataFrame in a REPL, such as IPython or Jupyter Notebook, but you can write a TUI application with textual-pandas and use that to display pandas
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A newer Python package called Rich Pixels allows you to create images in your terminal and display them. Darren Burns, one of the team members from the Textual project, created this package. Anyway, let’s find out how to use Rich Pixels! Installation You can install Rich Pixels using Python’s pip utility. Here’s how: python -m pip install rich-pixels Once
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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 Python framework for creating Text Based user interfaces (TUIs). You can create graphical user interfaces in your terminal with Textual. If you haven’t heard of Textual before, check out An Intro to Textual – Creating Text User Interfaces with Python In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and style a
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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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