Chapter 7. A Tkinter Tour, Part 1
“Widgets and Gadgets and GUIs, Oh My!”
This chapter is a continuation of our look at GUI programming in Python. The previous chapter used simple widgets to demonstrate the fundamentals of Tkinter coding in Python -- buttons, labels, and the like. That was simple by design: it’s easier to grasp the big GUI picture if widget interface details don’t get in the way. But now that we’ve seen the basics, this chapter and the next move on to present a tour of more advanced widget objects and tools available in the Tkinter library.
As we’ll find, this is where GUI scripting starts getting both practical and fun. In these two chapters we’ll meet classes that build the interface devices you expect to see in real programs -- sliders, checkboxes, menus, scrolled lists, dialogs, graphics, and so on. After these chapters, the last GUI chapter moves on to present larger GUIs that utilize the coding techniques and the interfaces shown in all prior GUI chapters. In these two chapters, though, examples are small and self-contained so that we can focus on widget details.
This Chapter’s Topics
Technically, we’ve already used a handful of simple widgets in
Chapter 6. So far we’ve met
Label
, Button
,
Frame
, and Tk
, and studied
pack
geometry management concepts along the way.
Although these are all basic, they are representative of Tkinter
interfaces in general, and can be workhorses in typical GUIs.
Frame
containers, for instance, are the basis of hierarchical display layout. ...
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