{"id":5311,"date":"2020-03-02T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T08:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2023-03-05T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:15:21","slug":"tkinter-python-site-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/tkinter-python-site-launcher\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create an app to launch sites and local files with python"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A site launcher<\/strong> with python<\/strong> easy to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am going back to my pylauncher<\/strong> app to make it easier<\/strong> to modify<\/strong> for your purpose. This app creates a GUI<\/strong> with buttons<\/strong> that opens links<\/strong> on the web or other stuffs, simply writing the text, the address and the png<\/strong> file for the button in an external file called sites.site<\/strong> and saving the png<\/strong> file in a folder<\/strong> called icons<\/strong>.
Its goal<\/strong> make a nice GUI<\/strong> to remind you of sites and stuffs you’re working on and to make it with less<\/strong> code<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here you can find the repository on Github in the folder py_site_launcher<\/a> (in the same repository there are other tkinter examples).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program lets you create a GUI with tkinter that automatically creates buttons with images, from an external file with the data written like this<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mysite #https:\/\/formazione.github.io # site.png\ngoogle #https:\/\/google.com #google.png<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The ‘mysite<\/strong>‘ or ‘google<\/strong>‘ names are the text for the buttons, then there is the link that will be opened when you click the button and at last there is the image that will be on the button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The code, that is very similar to the launcher app we saw on this blog some days ago, is re-thinked to make the things faster and to write less code for this app that is an utility. Later we will make another version to open other apps made in python or any other file on our computer. Think to it as an app launcher, that helps you to remind of your favourite sites or apps, all made with python.<\/p>\n\n\n
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How looks like the window with buttons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
This is the full code. You can find the images on the repository at this link here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
import tkinter as tk\nimport tkinter.ttk as ttk\nimport os\n\nroot = tk.Tk()\nroot.title(\"My launcher\")\n\n\nclass Button:\n\n    row = 0\n    column = 0\n\n    def __init__(self, text, func, arg, image=\"\"):\n        if image != \"\":\n            image = tk.PhotoImage(file=image)\n        root.rowconfigure(Button.row, weight=1, minsize=40)\n        root.columnconfigure(Button.column, weight=1, minsize=40)\n        self.button = ttk.Button(\n            root,\n            text=text,\n            image=image,\n            compound=tk.LEFT,\n            command=lambda: func(arg))\n\n        self.button.grid(\n            row=Button.row,\n            column=Button.column,\n            sticky=\"nsew\", padx=0)\n        self.button.image = image\n        if Button.column < 5:\n            Button.column += 1\n        else:\n            Button.column = 0\n            Button.row += 1\n\n\nwith open(\"sites.site\") as file:\n    file = file.readlines()\nfor line in file:\n    x = line.strip()\n    x = [f.strip() for f in x.split(\"#\")]\n    title, address, image = x\n    Button(title, os.startfile, address, image=\"icons\/\" + image)\n\nroot.mainloop()\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Remember to save a sites.site file with the data (for example):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mysite #https:\/\/formazione.github.io # site.png\ngoogle #https:\/\/google.com #google.png<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You can add or substitute the data at your will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Live coding video for py_site_launcher app<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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