http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/ui/top/2015-03-29T20:45:57-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2004-01-30T16:43:32-08:00Brent Burleyhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/98036/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52264-inline-gifs-with-tkinter/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 52264 by <a href="/recipes/users/98036/">Brent Burley</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This recipe will let you embed GIF images inside of your source code for use in Tkinter buttons, labels, etc. It's really handy for making toolbars, etc. without worrying about having the right icon files installed.</p> <p>The basic technique is to encode the GIF with base64 and store it as a string literal in the Python code to be passed to Tk PhotoImage.</p>

2001-03-14T17:42:44-08:00Brent Burleyhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/98036/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52266-multilistbox-tkinter-widget/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 52266 by <a href="/recipes/users/98036/">Brent Burley</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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

2005-05-10T09:26:05-07:00Ori Peleghttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2056315/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/413701-observerproxy/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 413701 by <a href="/recipes/users/2056315/">Ori Peleg</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>Create an proxy that forwards methods to a group of observers</p>

2005-01-12T22:00:07-08:00Artur de Sousa Rochahttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/343771/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286155-entering-accented-characters-in-tkinter-widgets/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 286155 by <a href="/recipes/users/343771/">Artur de Sousa Rocha</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 4. </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>

2004-12-26T19:11:42-08:00Iuri Wickerthttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/111694/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/188537-a-simple-tkinter-notebook-like-widget/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 188537 by <a href="/recipes/users/111694/">Iuri Wickert</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 4. </p> <p>You have some single-toplevel Tkinter apps that you want to organize in a notebook-like fashion, associating each tab to an app, in a way which requires minimal changes in your original apps. This simple notebook class allows that, also supporting different tab orientations (TOP, BOTTOM, LEFT &amp; RIGHT).</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>

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>

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>

2004-12-04T12:50:56-08:00Georg Nelleshttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2176948/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/355593-windows-clipboard-viewer/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 355593 by <a href="/recipes/users/2176948/">Georg Nelles</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>With the "SetClipboardViewer" function you can add a window to the chain of clipboard viewers. Whenever the content of the clipboard changes, a message is send to the clipboard viewer windows. A clipboard viewer window must process two messages and pass them to the next window in the chain. With a sample about hooking the window procedure of a wxPython Frame, I made up the following clipboard viewer.</p>

2004-12-01T16:00:16-08:00Valentino Volonghihttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/199559/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/355203-getting-the-data-dropped-on-a-window/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 355203 by <a href="/recipes/users/199559/">Valentino Volonghi</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>Using pygtk and glade you can easily write all you need to provide a log text buffer to output the data dropped.</p>

2004-09-02T01:58:08-07:00Brian Quinlanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/118989/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/303062-ironpython-fade-in-window/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 303062 by <a href="/recipes/users/118989/">Brian Quinlan</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). </p> <p>This recipe describes how to create a fade-in window using IronPython. Several applications use fade-in windows for temporary data e.g. new Outlook XP mail messages are shown through a fade-in/fade-out pop-up window.</p> <p>Fading in can be best accomplished using the Form.Opacity property and a Timer. Pop-up windows should also set the "topmost" window style.</p>

2002-05-23T13:51:38-07:00Jørgen Cederberghttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/359004/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/124894-stopwatch-in-tkinter/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 124894 by <a href="/recipes/users/359004/">Jørgen Cederberg</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This is a small implementation of a stopwatch widget in Tkinter. The widget displays a label with minutes:seconds:1/100-seconds. The label is updated every 50 ms, but that can easily be changed. Methods are availble for starting, stopping and resetting the stopwatch. A simple program demonstrates the widget.</p>

2001-09-27T15:49:21-07:00Brian McErleanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/111980/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/65109-building-gtk-guis-interactively/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 65109 by <a href="/recipes/users/111980/">Brian McErlean</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>One of pythons greatest strengths is the ability to try things interactively at the interpreter. Using Tkinter shares this strength, since one can create buttons, windows and other widgets, and instantly see them onscreen, click on buttons to activate callbacks and still be able to edit and add to the widgets from the python command line.</p> <p>While the python GTK bindings are generally excellent, one of their flaws is that this is not possible. Before anything is actually displayed, the gtk.mainloop() function must be called, ending the possibility of interactive manipulation.</p> <p>This recipe is a program which simulates a python interpreter which transparently allows the user to use gtk widgets without having to call mainloop(), in much the same way as Tk widgets.</p> <p>This latest version contains enhancements added by Christian Robottom Reis to add readline completion support.</p>

2015-03-29T20:45:57-07:00FB36http://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>

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>