Creating GUI Applications with wxPython

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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Who is this book for? About the Author Conventions Requirements Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) Book Source Code Reader Feedback Errata Chapter 1 - An Intro to wxPython What is a GUI? Hello World Hello with Classes Events Absolute Positioning vs Sizers Wrapping Up Chapter 2 - Creating an Image Viewer Finding the Right Widget Displaying an Image Making Working Buttons Loading an Image Wrapping Up Chapter 3 - Enhancing the Image Viewer Opening a Folder Adding New Buttons Hooking up Previous / Next Playing a Folder Switching to PubSub Other Notes on PubSub Wrapping Up Chapter 4 - Creating a Database Viewer Installing SQLAlchemy Installing ObjectListView Creating the Database Model Populating the Database Creating a Database Viewer Wrapping Up Chapter 5 - Creating a Database Editor Prerequisites Model - View - Controller The Model The View The Controller Editing the Database with a UI Connecting the View and Controller Wrapping Up Chapter 6 - The Humble Calculator Figuring Out the Logic Is eval() Evil? Designing the Calculator Creating the Initial Calculator Using a Validator Creating a Better eval() Wrapping Up Chapter 7 - Creating a Tarball Archiver Creating a Command Line Interface Archiving Multiple Items Adding a GUI Wrapping Up Chapter 8 - Creating an MP3 Tag Editor Finding an MP3 Package Designing the MP3 Tagger Creating the Main Application Editing MP3s Adding New Features Wrapping Up Chapter 9 - Creating an Application for NASA's API Getting Setup Using NASA's API Designing the User Interface Creating the NASA Search Application The Download Dialog Adding Advanced Search Wrapping Up Chapter 10 - Creating a PDF Merger / Splitter Utility Installing PyPDF2 Designing the Interface Creating the Application Using Threads in wxPython Enhancing PDF Merging with Threads Wrapping Up Chapter 11 - Creating a File Search Utility Designing Your File Search Utility Creating the File Search Utility The Text Search Utility Installing the Dependencies Designing a Text Search Utility Creating a Text Search Utility Wrapping Up Chapter 12 - Creating an FTP Application Designing the FTP Client Creating Your First Prototype Refactoring the Code Wrapping Up Chapter 13 - Creating an XML Editor The lxml Package Designing the Main App Introducing the wx.TreeCtrl Creating the Basic User Interface Creating an XML Editor Boomslang XML Wrapping Up Chapter 14 - Distributing Your Application Installing PyInstaller Generating an Executable The spec file Creating Executables for Mac Creating Executables for Linux Learning More About PyInstaller What About Installers? Creating an Installer with Inno Setup Code Signing Wrapping Up Appendix A - The wxPython Demo Learning to Use the Demo Modifying Demo Code Extracting Demo Code Wrapping Up Appendix B - The Widget Inspection Tool Using the Widget Inspection Tool Wrapping Up