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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

Python GUI Programming Cookbook

By : Burkhard Meier
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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

Python GUI Programming Cookbook

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By: Burkhard Meier

Overview of this book

Python is a multi-domain, interpreted programming language. It is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It is often used as a scripting language because of its forgiving syntax and compatibility with a wide variety of different eco-systems. Its flexible syntax enables developers to write short scripts while at the same time, they can use object-oriented concepts to develop very large projects. Python GUI Programming Cookbook follows a task-based approach to help you create beautiful and very effective GUIs with the least amount of code necessary. This book uses the simplest programming style, using the fewest lines of code to create a GUI in Python, and then advances to using object-oriented programming in later chapters. If you are new to object-oriented programming (OOP), this book will teach you how to take advantage of the OOP coding style in the context of creating GUIs written in Python. Throughout the book, you will develop an entire GUI application, building recipe upon recipe, connecting the GUI to a database. In the later chapters, you will explore additional Python GUI frameworks, using best practices. You will also learn how to use threading to ensure your GUI doesn’t go unresponsive. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in Python GUI programming to develop a common set of GUI applications.
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How to create independent message boxes

In this recipe, we will create our tkinter message boxes as stand-alone top-level GUI windows.

We will first notice that, by doing so, we end up with an extra window so we will explore ways to hide this window.

In the previous recipe, we invoked tkinter message boxes via our Help | About menu from our main GUI form.

So why would we wish to create an independent message box?

One reason is that we might customize our message boxes and reuse them in several of our GUIs. Instead of having to copy and paste the same code into every Python GUI we design, we can factor it out of our main GUI code. This can create a small reusable component, which we can then import into different Python GUIs.

Getting ready

We have already created the title of a message box in the previous recipe. We will not reuse the code from the previous recipe, but instead we will build a new GUI in very few lines of Python code.

How to do it...

We can create a simple message box like this:

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