We will create multiple threads using Python. This is necessary in order to keep our GUI responsive.
A thread is like weaving a fabric made out of yarn and is nothing to be afraid of.
How to create multiple threads
by Burkhard A. Meier
Python GUI Programming Cookbook - Second Edition
- Credits
- Preface
- Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets
- Introduction
- Creating our first Python GUI
- Preventing the GUI from being resized
- Adding a label to the GUI form
- Creating buttons and changing their text property
- Text box widgets
- Setting the focus to a widget and disabling widgets
- Combo box widgets
- Creating a check button with different initial states
- Using radio button widgets
- Using scrolled text widgets
- Adding several widgets in a loop
- Layout Management
- Look and Feel Customization
- Introduction
- Creating message boxes - information, warning, and error
- How to create independent message boxes
- How to create the title of a tkinter window form
- Changing the icon of the main root window
- Using a spin box control
- Relief, sunken and raised appearance of widgets
- Creating tooltips using Python
- Adding a progressbar to the GUI
- How to use the canvas widget
- Data and Classes
- Matplotlib Charts
- Threads and Networking
- Storing Data in our MySQL Database via our GUI
- Introduction
- Installing and connecting to a MySQL server from Python
- Configuring the MySQL database connection
- Designing the Python GUI database
- Using the SQL INSERT command
- Using the SQL UPDATE command
- Using the SQL DELETE command
- Storing and retrieving data from our MySQL database
- Using the MySQL workbench
- Internationalization and Testing
- Introduction
- Displaying widget text in different languages
- Changing the entire GUI language, all at once
- Localizing the GUI
- Preparing the GUI for internationalization
- How to design a GUI in an agile fashion
- Do we need to test the GUI code?
- Setting debug watches
- Configuring different debug output levels
- Creating self-testing code using Python's __main__ section
- Creating robust GUIs using unit tests
- How to write unit tests using the Eclipse PyDev IDE
- Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library
- Introduction
- Installing the wxPython library
- Creating our GUI in wxPython
- Quickly adding controls using wxPython
- Trying to embed a main wxPython app in a main tkinter app
- Trying to embed our tkinter GUI code into wxPython
- Using Python to control two different GUI frameworks
- Communicating between the two connected GUIs
- Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet
- Best Practices
How to create multiple threads
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