Download files
The EasyGui HTML documentation is available in a separate file from EasyGui itself. This is so you can download EasyGui without downloading the documentation.
easygui_version_x.xx.zip | EasyGui |
easygui_version_x.xx_docs.zip | EasyGui documentation and tutorial files (HTML) |
easygui_version_x.xx.tar.gz | EasyGui |
easygui_version_x.xx_docs.tar.gz | EasyGui documentation and tutorial files (HTML) |
Requires
- Python 2.x or 3.x
Installing EasyGui
- Download the archive file of your choice
- Unpack the archive file into a temporary directory
- In the temporary directory, locate the file called setup.py
- In a console window, at the command prompt, enter the command:
python setup.py installIf you're using some form of Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) you may need to use the sudo command
sudo python setup.py installor something (depending on your version of Python) like this
sudo /usr/bin/python2.6 setup.py installNote that the easygui.py file should be installed directly into Python's site-packages directory. It should not be installed in a site-packages/easygui directory. Doing so will probably cause your "import" statement for easygui to fail.
Thanks to Ned Deily for help in creating setup.py. In the future, we'd like to provide more sophisticated installation tools. But for now, setup.py is a big improvement.
Optional installation: python_and_logo.gif
When EasyGui is run from the command-line, it displays a menu-driven demo of its features. Some of the demos display a picture. To see the picture: from the archive file extract
python_and_logo.gif
and place it in the directory from which you will be running the EasyGui demo.
Customizing EasyGui
EasyGui font specs — including font size —are hard-coded. (This unfortunate situation will be improved in some future version.) The hard-coded font specs are generally reasonable, but the actual appearance of text on the screen is dependent on a number of variables (including your screen resolution) and so may produce screen text that is smaller or larger than you prefer. This means that the EasyGui feature that you are most likely to want to modify are the font-size specs. Here's how to do it.
Near the top of the code for easygui.py you will find lines that look something like this.
PROPORTIONAL_FONT_FAMILY = ("MS", "Sans", "Serif") MONOSPACE_FONT_FAMILY = ("Courier") PROPORTIONAL_FONT_SIZE = 10 MONOSPACE_FONT_SIZE = 9 # a little smaller, because it is more legible at a smaller size TEXT_ENTRY_FONT_SIZE = 12 # a little larger makes it easier to seeYou can edit easygui.py to change these settings to values that work best on your computer.
Installing EasyGui HTML Documentation
Download the archive file and extract it to a directory of your choce. In that directory
index.html
is the entry point for the HTML documentation.
How to use EasyGui
In application programs that use EasyGui, code:from easygui import *For more information, see the tutorial.
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