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RIS citation export for WEPOPRPO25: Using Tkinter of Python to Create Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Scripts in LNLS

TY - CONF
AU - Beniz, D.B.
AU - Espindola, A.M.
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
TI - Using Tkinter of Python to Create Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Scripts in LNLS
J2 - Proc. of PCaPAC2016, Campinas, Brazil, October 25–28, 2016
C1 - Campinas, Brazil
T2 - International Workshop on Personal Computers and Particle Accelerator Controls
T3 - 11
LA - english
AB - Python is being widely used to create scripts which cover different necessities in computational scenario. At LNLS we successfully developed Python scripts to control beamlines operations, including a case of Graphical User Interface (GUI) creation using Tkinter, which is the standard GUI programming toolkit of Python, for one of our beamlines, DXAS (Dispersive X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy). Tkinter offers the basic components necessary to build a GUI that help users to quickly inform a set of parameters defining which device to use, its configuration to set, among others, and to easily start or stop operations. Such components include widgets like (text) entry, radio button, check button, and (action) button. Using text entries we developed a custom table widget for input of parameters. Tkinter also allows us to inform and to guide users by label and message boxes, and to organize the window components by frames, paned windows and geometry managers, pack or grid. It is also available notebook and menu widgets to organize tabs and call other windows. Finally, all the interface construction was done using ordinary text editors and no extra library was needed to install for python.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 56
EP - 58
KW - ion
KW - controls
KW - interface
KW - GUI
KW - EPICS
DA - 2017/09
PY - 2017
SN - 978-3-95450-189-2
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2016-WEPOPRPO25
UR - http://jacow.org/pcapac2016/papers/wepoprpo25.pdf
ER -