Mike    The Screen is a container for your widgets. These screens occupy the dimensions of your terminal by default. While you can have many different screens in a single application, only one screen may be active at a time. When you create your App class, Textual will create a screen object implicitly....

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Mike    Textual is a great Python package for creating a lightweight, powerful, text based user interface. That means you can create a GUI in your terminal with Python without learning curses But what happens when you encounter some problems that require debugging your application A TUI takes over your...

Mike    Textual cogs is a collection of Textual dialogs that you can use in your Textual application. You can see a quick demo of the dialogs below: Dialogs included so far: Generic MessageDialog shows messages to the user SaveFileDialog gives the user a way to select a location to save a file...

Mike    Reading and writing files is a basic task that most software applications need to do. You will also find that you sometimes need to read and write files to a remote machine or perhaps run commands on a remote machine as well. Python is well suited for this type of activity using tools such as...

Mike    Textual v . . was released today, and it included the brand new MaskedInput widget. If you have used other GUI toolkits, such as wxPython, you might already be familiar with a masked input widget. These widgets allow you to control the user’s input based on a mask string that the developer...