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Graphic User Interface (GUI) Resources for Python

TKInter

This widget set is getting old, but is still reliable and used by a number of existing applications. The GTK (GIMP Toolkit) widget set is generally accepted as preferable, but the documentation and infrastructure of how to use GTK under Python is only now catching up to TK. Thus, while a bit old, TK is still a better choice for this class, and all of the basic principles of GUI design are the same.

An Introduction to Tkinter (PDF), by Fredrik Lundh

This book is a good reference on using Python and Tkinter 
      Python and Tkinter Programming
      John Grayson

      Manning (Publisher)
      ISBN 1-884777-81-3
Publisher's Page

Examples From Text(Shows use of Tkinter and Pmw with Python)

Python Mega Widgets (Pmw)

Experience with GUI implementation has shown that many combinations of widgets are commonly repeated, leading to the notion of a composite, or mega-widget. Perhaps it would have been best to call it a meta-widget, but so it goes. The Mega-widget set provides class definitions for many commonly used combinations of widgets, for example scroll bars associated with list boxes, for a more standardized look and feel, as well as simpler and faster implementation.

Python Mega Widgets Home Page

Python Mega Widgets TAR File

  • The Pmw TAR file includes a number of demos of various mega widgets that will give you a number of good ideas for your application, as well as giving you concrete examples of using the TK bindings within Python, so read the source code as well as clicking the buttons.

    The TAR file unpacks in a directory called "Pmw", and the demos are in "Pmw/Pmw_1_2/demos" within the unpacked directory tree. To run the demos: 

              bash% cd Pmw/Pmw_1_2/demos
          bash% python All.py