http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/ui/2015-03-29T20:45:57-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2015-03-29T20:45:57-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579041-shortcut-utility/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579041 by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/desktop/">desktop</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/directories/">directories</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/directory/">directory</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tkinter/">tkinter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utilities/">utilities</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utility/">utility</a>). </p> <p>I dislike filling my desktop with shortcut icons in Windows. This code enables creating shortcuts in a CSV file.</p>

2014-01-03T19:23:48-08:00Juan Ramirezhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4174026/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578805-multilistbox-tkinter-widget/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578805 by <a href="/recipes/users/4174026/">Juan Ramirez</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>This is a compound widget that gangs multiple Tk Listboxes to a single scrollbar to achieve a simple multi-column scrolled listbox. Most of the Listbox API is mirrored to make it act like the normal Listbox but with multiple values per row.</p>

2013-03-18T14:49:16-07:00David Cornehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4185735/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578494-geometry-class-for-tkinter/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578494 by <a href="/recipes/users/4185735/">David Corne</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/tkinter/">tkinter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>An easily extensible class, inheriting from Canvas, which can be used to define geometry in a more mathematical way. So rather than specify a circle from 2 points you give a radius and a centre. These could have colour as a keyword argument but personally I always want to specify the colour.</p>

2011-01-07T13:09:51-08:00Stephen Chappellhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2608421/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576950-accented-characters-for-tkinter-widgets/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576950 by <a href="/recipes/users/2608421/">Stephen Chappell</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>See <a href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286155/">Recipe 286155</a> for original code and author.</p> <p>This module provides two standard Tkinter widgets, Entry and ScrolledText, modified for text editing with key bindings that allow entering accented letters, umlauts, etc.</p> <p>Usage: To enter an accented character, press Ctrl-symbol, then press the character key. Example: to enter U with umlaut, press Ctrl-", U. For accent symbols that need shift, press Ctrl-Shift-symbol (for example, Ctrl-Shift-' if " is under Shift-').</p> <p>Accent bindings are defined in the Diacritical.accent table. Not all accents exist on all letters. This is handled by gracefully falling back to the base letter.</p> <p>Additional changes in default Tk key bindings: Ctrl-A is now select-all.</p>

2014-09-04T09:34:16-07:00Damian Parniewiczhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2913290/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496781-romantic-love-poem-in-python/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 496781 by <a href="/recipes/users/2913290/">Damian Parniewicz</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>This recipe was written for my beautiful girl...however signification of this code is universal</p>

2008-03-17T13:51:05-07:00Niklas Janlerthttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4132331/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/551774-asyncoreasynchat-in-gtk/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 551774 by <a href="/recipes/users/4132331/">Niklas Janlert</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>This recipe makes it possible to run asyncore/asynchat dispatchers in the GTK main thread.</p>

2006-06-02T07:05:41-07:00Bryan Niederbergerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2843232/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496767-set-process-priority-in-windows/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 496767 by <a href="/recipes/users/2843232/">Bryan Niederberger</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>This function allows you to set process priority under windows. It defaults to setting the priority of the current python process but can set anything for which you have a process ID. I find it handy to set a long-running job with lower than normal priority so the computer doesn't feel sluggish while it runs.</p>

2007-10-29T05:43:10-07:00alexander bakerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4090201/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/534138-twizzler/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 534138 by <a href="/recipes/users/4090201/">alexander baker</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>Handy utility to get things moving on the command line.</p>

2005-12-15T23:00:43-08:00Simon Formanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2702520/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/464635-call-a-callback-when-a-tkintertext-is-modified/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 464635 by <a href="/recipes/users/2702520/">Simon Forman</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>A Tkinter.Text can notice when its contents are changed. This recipe shows how to make use of the virtual event this generates to call your own callback.</p>

2006-04-07T22:45:51-07:00Bryan Niederbergerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2843232/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/483742-easy-cross-platform-excel-parsing-with-xlrd/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 483742 by <a href="/recipes/users/2843232/">Bryan Niederberger</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>Easily extract data from microsoft excel files using this wrapper class for xlrd (<a href="http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm</a>). The class allows you to create a generator which returns excel data one row at a time as either a list or dictionary. I found this very handy for easily pulling in a variety of excel files without having to deal with COM calls or even needing to have windows.</p>

2006-07-06T14:39:56-07:00Walker Halehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2928779/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496868-easily-creating-dialog-boxes-from-xrc-files/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 496868 by <a href="/recipes/users/2928779/">Walker Hale</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>This module allows creating and running a custom dialog box with a single function call. The custom dialog box must first be defined in an external XRC file. Editors like XRCed and wxGlade allow easily designing custom dialog boxes. You can then invoke the dialog box even if your application has no other GUI.</p>

2007-06-13T09:15:37-07:00Aristotelis Mikropouloshttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2881737/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496685-downloading-a-file-from-the-web/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 496685 by <a href="/recipes/users/2881737/">Aristotelis Mikropoulos</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>This script reads the contents of a web file and copies them into a local file, named the same as the web file.</p>

2006-04-29T20:26:33-07:00Alexander Belchenkohttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2623877/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440694-determine-size-of-console-window-on-windows/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 440694 by <a href="/recipes/users/2623877/">Alexander Belchenko</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>This recipe is Python implementation of few lines of C-code that get useful information about current working console on Windows. It may be useful for console application to proper formatting output. Recipe need ctypes package to be installed.</p> <p>This is the second version of recipe. When use handle of stdout for determining size of console and connect output of program via pipe to another program (e.g. pager 'more') then you get default 80x25 size. In case of using handle of stderr for this purpose then pipe don't destroy actual size.</p>

2005-12-02T12:17:38-08:00Martin Denglerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2688909/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/460509-get-the-actual-and-usable-sizes-of-all-the-monitor/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 460509 by <a href="/recipes/users/2688909/">Martin Dengler</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>This recipe gets the sizes of all the monitors on a multi-monitor Windows PC. It gets both the actual resolution and the usable ("work") resolutions. The usable resolution excludes the taskbar and docked applications.</p>

2006-03-30T07:30:05-08:00Michael Soulierhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2712185/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/476204-using-python-scripts-without-py-extension-in-dos-s/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 476204 by <a href="/recipes/users/2712185/">Michael Soulier</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>One problem with ending all of your python scripts in .py is that you have to type the full name of the command. On Unix you can symlink to it with the shortened name, or wrap it in a bourne-shell script, or a shell alias. None of these solutions is particularly clean.</p> <p>On MS Windows, file extensions have much more meaning. In fact, there is an environment variable to control what extensions should be considered executables, to permit them to be run from name, without the extension. This is the PATHEXT environment variable. Add .PY to this, and all of your python scripts can be executed transparently.</p>

2005-09-02T19:09:28-07:00Kartic Krishnamurthyhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2570233/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440507-changing-the-background-color-of-the-menu-bar-in-a/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 440507 by <a href="/recipes/users/2570233/">Kartic Krishnamurthy</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>Using win32 API to change the background color of the menubar/menu items in a wxPython app without affecting system-wide settings.</p>

2005-12-02T07:50:39-08:00Martin Denglerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2688909/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/460508-determine-the-available-desktop-area-primary-monit/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 460508 by <a href="/recipes/users/2688909/">Martin Dengler</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>This recipe is the Python implementation of the SystemParametersInfoA() invocation required to retrieve the area that application windows can inhabit. On multi-monitor setups, the windows code returns the area on the primary monitor only. This recipe is the cleaned up version of this email post <a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-May/162433.html" rel="nofollow">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-May/162433.html</a> .</p>

2005-10-31T11:46:10-08:00Jim Segravehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2647775/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/442500-extramenu-a-tkinter-menu-with-arbitrary-widgets-as/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 442500 by <a href="/recipes/users/2647775/">Jim Segrave</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>A variant of a Tkinter Menu which allos sub-menus to: automatically open/close when the controlling button is active/inactive sub-menus can be instances of any arbitrary widget, such as a Pmw.ComboBox</p>

2005-04-21T18:38:38-07:00Artur de Sousa Rochahttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/343771/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/410615-manipulate-mac-os-clipboard/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 410615 by <a href="/recipes/users/343771/">Artur de Sousa Rocha</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>This is a clipboard manipulation module that demonstrates some simple use of Carbon API. It can double as a Unix-style command-line tool that prints the clipboard contents to stdout or, if specified, copies its stdin to the clipboard, although pbcopy(1) and pbpaste(1) are better suited for that.</p>

2005-06-08T04:19:20-07:00Taro Ogawahttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2476380/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/425119-autosetup-for-simplified-default-values/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 425119 by <a href="/recipes/users/2476380/">Taro Ogawa</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>If each class's __init__ is used to set default values, it requires that one use super() or explicit parentclass.__init__() calls . Such ugly boilerplate can be avoided with this recipe.</p>