Thoughts on Programming
Bodo Schönfeld The Tkinter library is available in Python for creating a graphical user interface. In addition, the CustomTkinter UI library is a modern variant that allows more customization in terms of appearance. This article shows how CustomTkinter can be used to create a window with two text fields (entries), a button widget and a label widget. … Read more
uv is a package manager written in Rust that is an alternative to pip. It allows you to isolate a project, meaning packages installed with uv are only available to the respective Python project. This makes it possible to install different package versions for different projects. When a package is installed with uv, the package … Read more
The first Tkinter article showed how to create a simple window with a label. Here is the code: Grid was used as layout manager. After executing this code, this window appears: This simple app could now be further developed by adding more widgets. However, the more components are added, the more confusing the code becomes. … Read more
Programming applications for the desktop is not a focus for me these days. Nevertheless, I have not lost interest in it. So every now and then I take a look at different programming languages that can be used to implement this. This includes Python and Tkinter. In this blog post I would like to show … Read more
To get started with C++ programming on a Mac, you need a compiler and a program for writing the code. This blog post explains how to install these components. Install a compiler A compiler may already be installed on the Mac. This is the case, for example, if Apple’s Xcode is installed. You can check … Read more