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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

By : Burkhard Meier
Book Image

Python GUI Programming Cookbook

By: Burkhard Meier

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Python GUI Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Relief, sunken, and raised appearance of widgets


We can control the appearance of our Spinbox widgets by a property that makes them look either in relief, sunken, or in a raised format.

Getting ready

We will add one more Spinbox control to demonstrate the available appearances of widgets using the relief property of the Spinbox control.

How to do it...

First, let's increase the borderwidth to distinguish our second Spinbox from the first Spinbox.

# Adding a second Spinbox widget 
spin = Spinbox(monty, values=(0, 50, 100), width=5, bd=20, command=_spin) 
spin.grid(column=1, row=2)

Both of our Spinbox widgets above have the same relief style. The only difference is that our new widget to the right of the first Spinbox has a much larger border width.

In our code, we did not specify which relief property to use, so the relief defaulted to tk.SUNKEN.

Here are the available relief property options that can be set:

tk.SUNKEN

tk.RAISED

tk.FLAT

tk.GROOVE

tk.RIDGE

By assigning the different available...