This is the second of two posts on how to quickly create a Tkinter dashboard for your command line Python programs. The Tkinter widgets and programming techniques it introduces are a sequel to the previous post.
So far, you have an interactive graphical way of opening a file to analyse it in some way with your own logic, entering text to use as triggers or search strings, setting your own program flags on/off using check boxes, switching between two or more mutually exclusive program flags using radio boxes, controlling access to widgets and the variables they control, calling your own logic, and saving your results in a new file.
This post will build on these skills by showing how to create a dashboard to accept numerical input, perform different kinds of type- and value-checking, and select multiple input files simultaneously using a Tkinter GUI file selector. The solution will be multi-platform, and is shown running above on (from left) Windows 10, Mac OS/X and Linux Mint above. This post will explain how to create the same thing for your own program. Before proceeding, make sure you’ve read and understood the previous post.
Continue reading “GUI Template For Python: Part 2”
OK, one for the Mac users. Continuing the theme of user interfaces, here’s a simple but powerful way of using AppleScript to create a user interface for your Python programs and shell scripts and sending the results to just about any application installed on your Mac.