appJar

Simple tKinter GUIs in Python

This provides a library for implementing easy GUIs...

Download the ZIP file (click the big green button) & unzip it
Add it to your path:
- make a folder in your home directory, called PYLIB, and put appJar inside it
- On mac/linux add this to your .bashrc: export PYTHONPATH=~/PYLIB:$PYTHONPATH
- On Windows, add a new environment variable
Give it a twirl:
- Check the docs folder, for a couple of PDFs with help.
- Check the Lessons folder, for some example code.

from appJar import gui  
app = gui("Example")  
app.addLabel("label1", "Hello World")  
app.go()

or (using context managers):

from appJar import gui  
with gui("Example") as app:
    app.addLabel("label1", "Hello World")

or (using simple naming):

from appJar import gui  
with gui("Example") as app:
    app.label("Hello World")

Designed to be as easy as possible, yet still provide a lot of tkinter functionality
Provides 3 functions for most widgets:
- add(name, value) this adds a new widget (usually with a name and a value)
- set(name, value) this updates the value of the named widget
- get(name) this gets the value of the named widget
Uses grid layout
When adding widgets, up to 4 numerical "positions" can be supplied:
- column - the coloumn to appear in, starting at 0
- row - row to appear in, stating at 0
- columnspan - how many columns to span across
- rowspan - how many rows to span down
Provides loads of extra bits and pieces outside of core tkinter
- Some of this was from the excellent resources @ http://effbot.org
- Some of this was from slashdot examples of how to solve common problems
- Some of this has been incorporated from other people's modules:
  - ToolTip support form Michael Lange
  - png support using James Wright's tkinter-png and Johann C. Rocholl's png.py libraries
  - jpeg support using NanoJPEG from Martin J. Fiedler
I've tried to get as much functionality into this library as possible, without requiring any other modules

jarvisteach / appJar