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The Definitive Guide to Jython: Python for the Java™ Platform
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The Definitive Guide to Jython: Python for the Java™ Platform

by Josh Juneau, Jim Baker, Victor Ng, Leo Soto, Frank Wierzbicki
March 2010
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
544 pages
13h 28m
English
Apress
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Chapter 16. GUI Applications

The C implementation of Python comes with Tkinter for writing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). The GUI toolkit that you get automatically with Jython is Swing, which is included with the Java Platform by default. Similar to CPython, there are other toolkits available for writing GUIs in Jython. Because Swing is available on any modern Java installation, we will focus on the use of Swing GUIs in this chapter.

Swing is a large subject, and can't be fully covered in a single chapter. In fact, there are entire books devoted to Swing. We will provide an introduction to Swing, but only enough to describe the use of Swing from Jython. For in-depth coverage of Swing, one of the many books or web tutorials, like the Swing tutorial ...

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