Example Programs

These example programs may be found in the examples directory of your Urwid distribution.

tour.py

Show how many of the standard widgets may be arranged on the screen, including a DropDown with its list open

graph.py

Demonstrate BarGraph widget and alarms used for animation

edit.py

A simple text editor with lazy loading

browse.py

A lazy directory browser with file selection, tree-view, custom widgets and list walker

subproc.py

Monitor and display results from a subprocess

calc.py

A calculator with a decimal and a programmer tab over one display of big digits, which carries the number shown to the selected tab. It takes numeric keypad input, and has a theme pop-up that previews the palette until OK or Cancel, and a help dialog. The calculator logic is plain Python, kept apart from the user interface in the same file

notifications.py

Messages of each severity in the footer of a window, each one dismissed after five seconds, and a message that stays until it is dismissed

spinner.py

A spinner for every frame preset, started, stopped, stepped and sped up together

external_editor.py

Hand the terminal to an external editor and show the text written in it

thread_worker.py

Run a slow computation on a worker thread and show its progress and result

palette_test.py

Show available colors in various screen modes

bigtext.py

demonstrate the BigText widget