hPyT 1.3.4

Hack Python Titlebar - A package to manipulate windows and titlebar of GUI applications made using python.

hPyT - Hack Python Titlebar

A package to manipulate windows and titlebar of GUI applications made using python Supports Both Windows 11 and 10

https://github.com/Zingzy/hPyT/assets/90309290/f86df1c7-b75b-4477-974a-eb34cc117df3

You can download the above app from the github releases to test out the package before installing/using it in your projects

📖 Table of Contents

• hPyT - Hack Python Titlebar
  • 📚 Supported Libraries
  • 📦 Installing
  • 📥 Importing
  • Hide/Unhide Title Bar
  • 🌈 Rainbow TitleBar
  • 🌈 Rainbow Border
    • 🔄 Synchronizing the Rainbow Effect with other elements
  • Hide/Unhide both Maximize and Minimize Buttons (Completely Hides both buttons)
  • Hide/Unhide All Buttons or Stuffs
  • Enable/Disable Maximize Button
  • Enable/Disable Minimize Button
  • Opacity
  • ⚡ Flashing Window
  • 🎨 Custom TitleBar Color
    • Set TitleBar Color to windows Accent Color
  • 🖌️ Custom TitleBar Text Color
  • 🖌️ Custom Border Color
    • Set Border Color to windows Accent Color
  • 💻 Window Management
    • Center a window on the screen
    • Center a secondary window relative to the primary window
    • Other basic window management functions
  • ✨ Window Animations
    • Circle Motion
    • Verical Shake
    • Horizontal Shake
  • ✏️ Stylize text
  • Miscellaneous
  • Get Windows Accent Color
  • Stylize text
  • Workaround for other libraries
  • 📜 hPyT Changelog
    • v1.3.4
    • v1.3.3
    • v1.3.2
    • v1.3.1
    • v1.3.0
    • v1.2.1
    • v1.2.0
    • v1.1.3
    • v1.1.2
    • v1.1.1
    • v1.1.0

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📚 Supported Libraries

• Tkinter & CustomTkinter
• PyQt
• PySide
• WxPython
• Kivy
• And many more

📦 Installing

pip install hPyT==1.3.4

📥 Importing

from hPyT import *
from customtkinter import * # you can use any other library from the above mentioned list

window = CTk() # creating a window using CustomTkinter

Hide/Unhide Title Bar

title_bar.hide(window) # hides full titlebar
# title_bar.unhide(window)

🌈 Rainbow TitleBar

rainbow_title_bar.start(window, interval=5) # starts the rainbow titlebar
# rainbow_title_bar.stop(window) # stops the rainbow titlebar

[!NOTE] interval is the time in milliseconds in which the color would change

🌈 Rainbow Border

rainbow_border.start(window, interval=4) # starts the rainbow border
# rainbow_border.stop(window) # stops the rainbow border

🔄 Synchronizing the Rainbow Effect with other elements

from hPyT import *

...

rainbow_title_bar.start(window, interval=30) # starts the rainbow titlebar
# rainbow_border.start(window, interval=30) # also works with rainbow border

current_color = rainbow_title_bar.get_current_color() # or rainbow_border.get_current_color()
# you can use this color to synchronize the color of other elements with the titlebar

Code for the above illustration available in /examples/rainbow-synchronization-example.py

Hide/Unhide both Maximize and Minimize Buttons (Completely Hides both buttons)

maximize_minimize_button.hide(window) # hides both maximize and minimize button
# maximize_minimize_button.unhide(window)

Hide/Unhide All Buttons or Stuffs

all_stuffs.hide(window) # hides close button
# all_stuffs.unhide(window)

Tip: to hide the text set the window title to ''

Enable/Disable Maximize Button

maximize_button.disable(window) # hides maximize button
# MaximizeButton.enable(window)

Enable/Disable Minimize Button

minimize_button.disable(window) # hides minimize button
# MinimizeButton.enable(window)

Opacity

opacity.set(window, 0.5) # sets the window opacity to 50%
# opacity.set(window, 1) # resets the window opacity to 100%

⚡ Flashing Window

window_flash.flash(window, 10, 100) # flashes the window 10 times with 100ms interval
# window_flash.stop(window) # stops the flashing immediately

Flashing Interval starts from 10ms, default 1000ms

🎨 Custom TitleBar Color

title_bar_color.set(window, '#ff00ff') # sets the titlebar color to magenta
# title_bar_color.reset(window) # resets the titlebar color to default

[!NOTE] You can pass any valid color in Hex or RGB format

Set TitleBar Color to windows Accent Color

title_bar_color.set_accent(window) # sets the titlebar color to the current windows accent color

🖌️ Custom TitleBar Text Color

title_text_color.set(window, '#ff00ff') # sets the titlebar text color to magenta
# title_text_color.reset(window) # resets the titlebar text color to default

🖌️ Custom Border Color

border_color.set(window, '#ff00ff') # sets the border color to magenta
# border_color.reset(window) # resets the border color to default

Set Border Color to windows Accent Color

border_color.set_accent(window) # sets the border color to the current windows accent color

💻 Window Management

Center a window on the screen

window_frame.center(window)

Center a secondary window relative to the primary window

window_frame.center_relative(window, child_window)

Example Usecase

window = CTk()
window.title("Primary Window")
window.geometry('600x300')
window_frame.center(window)

child_window = CTkToplevel()

window_frame.center_relative(window, child_window)

window.bind("<Configure>", lambda event: window_frame.center_relative(window, child_window))

def on_close():  # this is required to stop the window from centering the child window after the parent window is closed
	window.unbind("<Configure>")
	child_window.destroy()

child_window.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", on_close)

window.mainloop()

Other basic window management functions

window_frame.move(window, 100, 100) # moves the window to (100, 100)
window_frame.resize(window, 500, 500) # resizes the window to 500x500
window_frame.maximize(window) # maximizes the window
window_frame.minimize(window) # minimizes the window
window_frame.restore(window) # restores the window

✨ Window Animations

Circle Motion

window_animation.circle_motion(window, count=5, interval=5, radius=30)
# moves the window in a circular motion 5 times with 5ms interval and 30px radius

The animation might appear a bit fasterer and rougher in the above preview gif than it is

Verical Shake

window_animation.vertical_shake(window, count=5, interval=5, amplitude=20)
# shakes the window vertically 5 times with 5ms interval and 10px distance

Horizontal Shake

window_animation.horizontal_shake(window, count=5, interval=5, amplitude=20)
# shakes the window horizontally 5 times with 5ms interval and 10px distance

✏️ Stylize text

title_text.stylize(window, style=1)

Below is a gif demonstrating all of the available styles

Miscellaneous

Get Windows Accent Color

print(get_accent_color()) # prints the current windows accent color
>>> '#1b595a'

Stylize text

print(stylize_text("Your Custom Text", style=1)) # stylizes your text
# all of the styles shown on the above gif are available
>>> "𝔜𝔬𝔲𝔯 ℭ𝔲𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔪 𝔗𝔢𝔵𝔱"

Workaround for other libraries

This menthod is applicable for any other UI library like pygame pySimpleGUI, etc. which are not mentioned in the supported libraries list. You just need to pass the hwnd of the window to the functions as demonstrated below.

from hPyT import *
import ctypes

hwnd = ctypes.windll.user32.GetActiveWindow()
rainbow_border.start(hwnd)

📜 hPyT Changelog

v1.3.4

• Add method for applying the current windows accent color to the titlebar and border color
• Add method for getting the current windows accent color
• Add type annotations and docstrings to functions for better clarity and autocompletion

v1.3.3

• Fixed taskbar unhide/hide bug

v1.3.2

• Add support for synchronizing the rainbow effect with other ui elements.

v1.3.1

• Add support for UI libraries like Kivy, PySimpleGUI, PyGame, etc.
• Improve the rainbow titlebar & border effects.
• Improve the center_relative function & examples.

v1.3.0

• Add support for setting custom border color
• Add support for rainbow border color effect
• Add support for resetting the titleBar color and titleText color
• Fix an issue which caused the titleBar to appear black after the rainbow titleBar effect was stopped

v1.2.1

• Minor Bug Fixes

v1.2.0

• Add support for rainbow titlebar
• Add support for styling title text
• Add support for vertical, horizontal shake and circle motion window animations
• Add support for centering a window on the screen
• Add support for centering a window relative to another window
• Add support for moving/resizing/maximizing/minimizing/restoring a window
• Add support for setting custom titlebar color
• Add support for setting custom titlebar text color

v1.1.3

• Add flashing inverval support

v1.1.2

• Add window flashing support
• Add window opacity support
• Add support for PyGTK

v1.1.1

• Add support for WxPython, PyQt and PySide

v1.1.0

• Initial Release

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