A package to manipulate windows and titlebar of GUI applications made using python Supports Both Windows 11 and 10
hPyT-Preview-1.2.0.mp4
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
- 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
- 🖌️ Custom TitleBar Text Color
- 🖌️ Custom Border Color
- 💻 Window Management
- ✨ Window Animations
- ✏️ Stylize text
- Miscellaneous
- Get Windows Accent Color
- Stylize text
- Workaround for other libraries
- 📜 hPyT Changelog
- Tkinter & CustomTkinter
- PyQt
- PySide
- WxPython
- Kivy
- And many more
pip install hPyT==1.3.6from hPyT import *
from customtkinter import * # you can use any other library from the above mentioned list
window = CTk() # creating a window using CustomTkintertitle_bar.hide(window) # hides full titlebar
# title_bar.unhide(window)
rainbow_title_bar.start(window, interval=5) # starts the rainbow titlebar
# rainbow_title_bar.stop(window) # stops the rainbow titlebarNote
interval is the time in milliseconds in which the color would change
rainbow_border.start(window, interval=4) # starts the rainbow border
# rainbow_border.stop(window) # stops the rainbow border
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
maximize_minimize_button.hide(window) # hides both maximize and minimize button
# maximize_minimize_button.unhide(window)
all_stuffs.hide(window) # hides close button
# all_stuffs.unhide(window)
Tip: to hide the text set the window title to ''
maximize_button.disable(window) # hides maximize button
# MaximizeButton.enable(window)
minimize_button.disable(window) # hides minimize button
# MinimizeButton.enable(window)
opacity.set(window, 0.5) # sets the window opacity to 50%
# opacity.set(window, 1) # resets the window opacity to 100%
window_flash.flash(window, 10, 100) # flashes the window 10 times with 100ms interval
# window_flash.stop(window) # stops the flashing immediatelyFlashing Interval starts from 10ms, default 1000ms
title_bar_color.set(window, '#ff00ff') # sets the titlebar color to magenta
# title_bar_color.reset(window) # resets the titlebar color to defaultNote
You can pass any valid color in Hex or RGB format
title_bar_color.set_accent(window) # sets the titlebar color to the current windows accent color
Note
The titlebar color will automatically change when the windows accent color changes
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
border_color.set(window, '#ff00ff') # sets the border color to magenta
# border_color.reset(window) # resets the border color to default
border_color.set_accent(window) # sets the border color to the current windows accent color
Note
The border color will automatically change when the windows accent color changes
window_frame.center(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()
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 windowwindow_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
window_animation.vertical_shake(window, count=5, interval=5, amplitude=20)
# shakes the window vertically 5 times with 5ms interval and 10px distancewindow_animation.horizontal_shake(window, count=5, interval=5, amplitude=20)
# shakes the window horizontally 5 times with 5ms interval and 10px distancetitle_text.stylize(window, style=1)Below is a gif demonstrating all of the available styles
print(get_accent_color()) # prints the current windows accent color
>>> '#1b595a'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"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)- Minor Bug Fixes
- Add feature for automatically changing the accent color of the titlebar and border
- Fix an issue which caused ImportError when used with a python version less than 3.9
- 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
- Fixed taskbar unhide/hide bug
- Add support for synchronizing the rainbow effect with other ui elements.
- Add support for UI libraries like Kivy, PySimpleGUI, PyGame, etc.
- Improve the rainbow titlebar & border effects.
- Improve the center_relative function & examples.
- 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
- Minor Bug Fixes
- 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
- Add flashing inverval support
- Add window flashing support
- Add window opacity support
- Add support for PyGTK
- Add support for WxPython, PyQt and PySide
- Initial Release
