In this blog post, I’m going to confront my troubled past and write a bit of code to display a video feed with OpenCV and Tkinter. It’s a door that I honestly haven’t opened since… until now. Since then, I’ve always (mentally) correlated GUI development with painful, trying times. And spending all-nighters trying to resolve race conditions, callback hell, and threading nightmares that not even an experienced seamstress could untangle. Lengthly code blocks to accomplish even minutely simple tasks. And it was quite the departure from the all-too-familiar command line interfaces. You see, I found developing GUI applications fun. There were a great deal of family problems going on.Īnd I had yet to mature from an adolescent into an adult, stuck in the throes of puberty - an awkward teenage boy, drunk on apathy, while simultaneously lacking any direction or purpose.Īt that point in my (early) programming career, I turned to Java and GUI development in a last-ditch effort to escape, much like a heroin addict turns to a spoon and a needle for a few minutes of relief, only for the world to come crashing back down once the initial high wears off. I was sick often and missed a lot of school. I think my aversion to GUI development started back in early-High school when I was teaching myself Java specifically, how to write Java applets (remember what god damn nightmares applets were?) utilizing javax and Swing. I said it in last week’s blog post and I’ll say it again here today - I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a GUI developer. Click here to download the source code to this post
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