Widget
A widget is a self-contained user-interface component that displays information or provides a focused interaction.
Get Programming: Learn to code with Python
A widget is a graphical user-interface component that displays information or accepts user interaction within a window.
- How it is used
- Uses graphical controls to build interactive GUI windows.
- How deep it goes
- Explains creation, placement, types, and event handling, then applies them in a countdown example.
- Examples
- Uses buttons, text boxes, labels, progress bars, menus, and a countdown timer.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch by adding tkinter widgets, placing them in a window, and connecting actions to event handlers.
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Python How-To
A widget is a self-contained user-interface component that displays information or provides an interaction.
- How it is used
- Builds Streamlit web-app interfaces that collect input, trigger actions, arrange content, and display information.
- How deep it goes
- Defines widget categories and demonstrates configuration, columns, filtering, callbacks, and reruns, while deferring detailed widget usage instructions.
- Examples
- Uses task filters, a View Detail button, sidebar controls, columns, task forms, and interfaces for creating, updating, and deleting tasks.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Streamlit to construct interactive task-list, detail, filtering, and data-entry interfaces.
Related concepts
- Streamlitused by · Streamlit is an open-source Python framework for building interactive web applications, particularly for data and machine-learning applications.
- check boxincludes · A checkbox is an interactive form control representing an independently selectable binary option that can be checked or cleared.
- canvas elementincludes · The HTML canvas element is a scriptable bitmap drawing surface in a web document for rendering graphics.
- sessionconfigured by · A session is a bounded interaction context associated with a user, client, or process that may maintain state across related operations or requests.
- st.metricincludes · st.metric is a Streamlit display function that presents a labeled metric value and optionally its change from a reference value.
- st.number_inputincludes · st.number_input is a Streamlit function that creates an input widget for entering a numeric value.
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