Plotly is renowned for its interactive web-based plots, but you often need to save these plots as static image files (PNG, JPEG, SVG) or as interactive HTML files for sharing or embedding. See how to save your Plotly figures to local files.
How to Set Same Scale for X and Y Axis in Plotly
When creating plots, especially scatter plots or scientific visualizations, it’s often crucial to ensure that the x and y axes have the same scale. This means that a unit of distance on the x-axis represents the same magnitude as a unit of distance on the y-axis. In Plotly, this is achieved by setting the aspect Continue reading
Setting Background Color to Transparent in Plotly Plots
Plotly is a versatile charting library that allows for extensive customization. One common requirement is to make the background of a plot transparent, which is particularly useful when embedding plots on websites with custom backgrounds or when layering plots. See how to set both the plot area and the overall figure background to transparent in Continue reading
How to remove space between subplots in Plotly
Plotly’s subplot functionality is incredibly useful for displaying multiple related plots in a single figure. By default, make_subplots adds a certain amount of spacing between these plots for readability. However, there are many cases where you might want to reduce or completely remove this space to create a more compact or visually continuous layout. See Continue reading
Tkinter Grid Layout: Understanding Sticky
The Tkinter grid layout manager is a powerful tool for arranging widgets in a table-like structure of rows and columns. One of its most important options is sticky, which controls how a widget is aligned and stretched within its grid cell. Understanding sticky is crucial for creating responsive and well-aligned Tkinter GUIs.
Adding Vertical Lines in Plotly
Vertical lines (vlines) are a great way to highlight specific x-values on a Plotly chart—whether it’s a threshold, a special event, or a point of interest. Learn how to use Plotly to create vertical lines in both Plotly Express and Graph Objects.
Tkinter OptionMenu Widget
The Tkinter OptionMenu widget provides a dropdown list from which the user can select a single item. It’s a convenient way to offer a predefined set of choices without taking up too much space in your graphical user interface (GUI). See how to create and use the OptionMenu widget.
How to create a full-screen Tkinter window in Python
Tkinter allows developers to build GUI applications in Python with ease. If you want your window to cover the entire screen, for example in kiosk applications or immersive displays, Tkinter makes it simple to go full screen. Check how to enable and manage full-screen mode in a Tkinter window.
Using Tkinter Frame with the grid geometry manager in Python GUI development
In Tkinter, the Frame widget is a powerful container used to group and organize other widgets within your application. When combined with the grid geometry manager, it provides a clean and structured way to lay out components in rows and columns. This guide explains how to create Frames and use the grid layout to build Continue reading
Using Entry Widget in Tkinter
The Entry widget in Tkinter is a fundamental component for creating GUI applications that require text input from the user. It allows users to type and edit single-line strings and is commonly used in forms, login interfaces, and data-entry systems. This guide will walk you through the purpose, syntax, configuration, and practical examples of using Continue reading
Tkinter Message Boxes: Interacting with Users
Tkinter provides a convenient module called messagebox, which offers a set of pre-built dialog boxes for displaying messages, warnings, errors, and asking for user confirmation. These dialogs are essential for creating interactive and user-friendly Tkinter applications.
Tkinter and Threading: Preventing Freezing GUIs
Tkinter applications are single-threaded, meaning that all GUI updates and event handling occur within the main thread. If you perform long-running operations directly in the main thread, your application will become unresponsive or “freeze” until the operation completes. To avoid this, you need to use threading to offload time-consuming tasks to separate threads.
Displaying Images in Tkinter
Tkinter, Python’s standard GUI toolkit, allows you to display images in your applications. Let’s see how to load and display various image formats using Tkinter and the Pillow (PIL) library.
Organizing Tkinter Layouts with Frames and Grid
In Tkinter, the Frame widget acts as a container to group other widgets. When combined with the grid layout manager, Frame widgets provide a powerful way to structure complex and organized graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
Creating Pop-up Windows in Tkinter
Pop-up windows, also known as dialog boxes or secondary windows, are essential for displaying additional information, prompting for user input, or showing alerts in graphical user interfaces. Tkinter provides several ways to create and manage pop-up windows in your Python applications.