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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

By : Bhaskar Chaudhary
Book Image

Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

By: Bhaskar Chaudhary

Overview of this book

Tkinter is the built-in GUI package that comes with standard Python distributions. It is a cross-platform package, which means you build once and deploy everywhere. It is simple to use and intuitive in nature, making it suitable for programmers and non-programmers alike. This book will help you master the art of GUI programming. It delivers the bigger picture of GUI programming by building real-world, productive, and fun applications such as a text editor, drum machine, game of chess, media player, drawing application, chat application, screen saver, port scanner, and many more. In every project, you will build on the skills acquired in the previous project and gain more expertise. You will learn to write multithreaded programs, network programs, database driven programs and more. You will also get to know the modern best practices involved in writing GUI apps. With its rich source of sample code, you can build upon the knowledge gained with this book and use it in your own projects in the discipline of your choice.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding the cursor information bar


The cursor information bar is simply a small label at the bottom-right corner of the Text widget, which displays the current position of the cursor, as shown in the following screenshot:

The user can choose to show/hide this info bar from the View menu (refer to the code in 2.11.py in the code bundle). Begin by creating a Label widget within the Text widget and pack it in the bottom-right corner, as follows:

cursor_info_bar = Label(content_text, text='Line: 1 | Column: 1')
cursor_info_bar.pack(expand=NO, fill=None, side=RIGHT, anchor='se')

In many ways, this is similar to displaying the line numbers. Here too, the positions must be calculated after every key press, after events such as cut, paste, undo, redo, new, and open, or activities that lead to a change in cursor positions. Because this too needs to be updated for all the changed content, for every key press, we will update on_content_changed to update this, as follows:

def on_content_changed(event=None...