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 […]
February 18, 2015 by
Mike 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 […]
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 […]
September 22, 2010 by
Mike 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 […]
September 15, 2010 by
Mike 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!
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 […]