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The small images you put on buttons and such are nice, but a real pain if you have to attach all those image files to your program. Python's base64 encoding module makes it easy to convert the binary image code to a string that you can simply make part of …
Here is an example of a random spin button using a button surrounded by labels to create the feeling of a spin animation. This example uses the Tkinter GUI and lets you select numbers 1 to 6. If your game requires more then this, just add additional labels. You are …
This little snippet combines a Tkinter GUI application with sound from the pygame mixer. The snippet should do fairly well across platforms. I tested it on a Windows XP machine, but let me know your experience with other platforms.
The wxPython GUI tool makes it very simple to create nice looking analog clock. The analog clock component was put into simple dialog frame and can be moved about the screen.
Using a wxPython GUI program to find the position of the mouse when clicked within the frame/window. Also sets the color of the frame and changes the cursor to a pencil. The title bar of the frame displays the coordinates of the mouse position.
Did you ever want to know how how many square inches are in a square meter? This short Python code allows you to get the answer. It uses a dictionary to simplify the conversions. Could be the start of a nice GUI program using radio buttons.
Jumping through a few extra hoops allows you to display the common image format jpeg on a panel of the wxPython GUI window. All you need to do is to read in the image file as a binary, convert to a byte stream image and then to a bitmap. Now …
While the calculation of the total resistance of two resistors in parallel is simple, this code shows you how to trap a number of potential errors that come with the entry of the required data. All is wrapped easily into a colorful GUI program, due to the simplicity of the …
This is another GUI program using the Tkinter module. It shows you how to change the background and foreground color of a component/widget. In this case it is a button. The button itself is used to toggle the color selection via a color dialog box. Enough comments have been added …
Python's Tkinter module can be used to create a Graphics User Interface (GUI). This sample code creates a windows type form and positions a label and a canvas on the form. A simple shape is drawn on the canvas.
The wxPython library allows Python to create Windows GUI programs. Here is a look at the listbox component. Click a button to load the listbox with names, select the name by clicking on it on the list, and display it in the title bar of the window frame. Another button …
I look at BCX-basic as a modernized qbasic. This simple code creates a Windows GUI program that plays a midi instrumental music file. To keep it simple, the file it looks for is "TheRose.mid" file. If you don't have this file, you have the option of editing the code, or …
Using wxPython and the Boa Constructor, a VB/Delphi like IDE and Visual Builder, this little calculator was a breeze to make. Boa did 90% of the code generation, and I simply added code to each button click event to make the calculations work. I wish every project would go that …
This shows you how to create a Windows GUI program in BCX basic and embed the Media Player in the form. It will give you a fully functional player with a 30k executable size for your MP3 files. The needed header files and library files are included in the BCX …
An introduction to the Win32 GUI. The code creates a simple window that you can play with. Many parameters can be changed if you like! The unusual thing about windows apps is that rather than directly handling inputs (ie the position of the mouse / what control has focus ect...) …
What is so easy to do in HTML gets quite involved in C. Once you learn to look past the standard GUI overhead it becomes more obvious. This example shows the effect of the mouse cursor moving across a label by changing foreground and background colors.
This program shows how to display a JPEG (also GIF,BMP,WMF etc.) image using some Windows Graphical User Interface C code. The program uses the uuid.lib file that comes with many C compilers.
This snippet shows how to draw a red circle on a Windows form. Original code via BCX, modified to compile with Dev C++. The GUI code looks a little complex. Gets simpler, once you get past the required overhead. For those who need some hand holding with the Dev C++ …
The JOptionPane class is used to give the CompMortgage.java program a front-end GUI interface. The class is divided into numerous functions.
I am having an issue with my program. If I select one of the three calc buttons it works fine and shows the amort table correctly. If I put information in the text fields for amount, interest, and years and hit calculate button I get little boxes in the amort …
hi please i deperately need help been trying to compile this code on netbeans IDE but it keeps giving me error on the output code is: package gameapplication; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.GridLayout; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import java.util.Vector; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JCheckBox; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JPanel; /** * …
Before i thought all i had to do was add graphics on the background of the panels. [url]http://blogfriendlyzone.webs.com/WheelOfFortune/WheelOfFortune.html[/url] But now when i look at, i think it would need more than graphic background to give it more of a professional look to it so that people would want to play …
Hello This is a completely foreign thing to me, so, forgive my "Noob-ness" I'm so embarassed. You programmers out there are prob gonna say, "how much easier can we MAKE it for you?" I just installed the python gui on vista. (I will re-install it on THIS xp machine also …
Hi, i am using visual studio 2008, C++ MFC to do my program. I am doing serial communication. I have a GUI C++ program. At the beginning, i will ask user to choose the com port then connect it. After that, i will need to let the user change the …
Hello everybody. I'm a [U]beginner[/U] and I need your help. I have a GUI programme and I need to make it run from an icon on the desktop. can you help me with an easy way to do so?
Hi, I have a Windows GUI app that uses a thread for a computation intensive call. It works fine. From what I understand the thread is terminated when my thread function returns which means that I dont need to add a a termination to it. However, I don't want the …
I am very green at writing Java, I am trying to go through our chapter examples and putting in data for a mortgage calculator with a GUI. This code is far from finished but the example says "Now save and compile" and this is where I am getting the error …
Ok in my program i'm trying to prevent a user from adding too many objects. i have three arrays called subs airs and dests, the user shouldn't be able to have more than a total of 10 objects between them. in order to add an object to an array the …
Hi, I am new to C++. I am using Visual studio 2008, MFC application. I need to do a GUI program using C++. I have come out with the GUI and now i need source code to communicate to external deivce like hard disk using serial port communication. My GUI …
The assign was a game called FortuneCity The prof wanted us to follow the MODEL - VIEW - CONTROLLER implemention. The MODEL contains only functions that can be used in the game. It has NO GUI stuff in it. The VIEW contains only contains the GUI interface. The CONTROLLER allows …
i am currently working on a GUI for a program. i have created 100 jpanels which i have set opaque and colored blue. All of these blocks get an error which says that an identifier is expected for the lines which set them opaque and colors them, heres an example: …
So I'm working on a GUI program in Java, and I'm having problems dealing with some text fields i have. The text fields are resizing themselves the same size of the window, making them much larger than I wish. [IMG]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y201/ElChibo/tioex-2.jpg[/IMG] I would like all of the text labels to be …
Ok, I am writing a client for the "instant messaging" server I just wrote. The client is in all Python, and the GUI is made with Tkinter. Anyways, my first question is this: is there a way to make a scrollbar widget automatically scroll to the bottom? Second, in a …
Hello I need some tips regarding line striping i.e, number of lines joining with the indices and vertices in GUI using c++.
hi all, i am very new to programing and i have just writen a calculator for measuring building marerials, the program works great, but it dosn't look to pretty. how can i get my calculator to work in a window, instead of the default dev c++ command window thingy i …
Hi everybody sorry if the title is misleading what am meant to say does anyone know of such a book or anything where I or we (depending anyone coming back to this thread) lol Know were we can see step by step on how to build application on java you …
The code below runs successfully but once run and the user enters a message into the text field named input and clicks the button named send, I receive a null pointer expression. Within the inner action listener it calls the method sendMessage() which gets the text and assigns it to …
is there anyway to repeat a function every so often without using a while True: loop? im asking because in my GUI's they dont respond when proccessing large amounts of information. I want to display the information in real time without waiting for the while True loop to exit. Thanks …
While I am familiar java but i am basically new to creating a GUI using java. I need to make it so when a user clicks on a button another window pops up displaying various statistics about that product. The thing is the amount of information I need to display …
pls i need help!I am writing a code to turn on and turn off a light bulb between a client side and a server side using sockets in java.The thing communicates but i am having problem puttin it on gui radio buttons .I called the method to sendMesage from the …
I'm working on a program that first launches a frame with various text fields. After they are filled in, the information is submitted by simply clicking the submit button. I have the frame down, the text fields and the buttons, and I have the class where all my data and …
Hi, I am new in Daniweb. I am trying to do a simple task in Python but cannot figure out how it works. Keeps getting it wrong. Basically, I have a main GUI class App which has 2 entry boxes where you fill two numbers, a listbox where the results …
I have to create a GUI like Netica that can create decision networks (influence diagrams) I want to click on a rectangle icon and be able to drop it on the editor and make the rectangle bigger. How do I do that? I know it is drag and drop but …
So I have a JComboBox, which contains recipe names. I want, when the recipe name is changed, for the label that is an icon of the rating (1 to 5) stars, based on my recipe object, to change as well. My code seems like it should work perfect but it …
Hi, I'm really, really new to Java, but I've created a game, and in a separate file the GUI, but I don't know how to attach the functions of the program to the GUI. This is my program: [code] import java .util.*; class bust { public static void main (String …
Hi everyone! I have a program in C#, which doesn't resize and adjust the contents of the app-window when I maximize it. I know that in Java, one can use JFrame and this problem is eliminated. Is there an equivalent in C#?
I am looking for something with a gui that is capable of accessing sql database data and then being able to produce simple graphs from that data. Any suggestions for programs or something I could modify to produce that result are appreciated.
Hello, I am trying to make a GUI interface for a plotting routine written with matplotlib. The GUI is in PyGtk. One of the things I would like to have is a cross hair through the mouse cursor (a vertical and horizontal line intersecting at the mouse) which moves along …
I am looking for some advice. I am trying to parse an XML file and then display data from it onto a table in a GUI, using Visual Studio. This will be done in C#. Does anyone have some advice on what is the best way to proceed with that? …
Hi, I'm using eclipse to write my programs but for some reason this code does not work can someone tell me whats wrong with it? here is the code. and sorry if i didnt use the code wrapper properly. package dataTypes; import javax.swing.*; public class Window { JPanel pnl = …
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