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Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Burkhard Meier
Book Image

Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

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. 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 will guide you through the very basics of creating a fully functional GUI in Python with only a few lines of code. Each and every recipe adds more widgets to the GUIs we are creating. While the cookbook recipes all stand on their own, there is a common theme running through all of them. As our GUIs keep expanding, using more and more widgets, we start to talk to networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance our GUI’s functionality. This book is what you need to expand your knowledge on the subject of GUIs, and make sure you’re not missing out in the long run.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

GUI design using multiple notebooks


In this recipe, we will create our GUI using multiple notebooks. Surprisingly, tkinter does not ship out of the box with this functionality, but we can easily design such a widget.

Using multiple notebooks will further reduce the complexity discussed in the previous recipe.

Getting ready

We will create a new Python GUI similar to the one in the previous recipe. This time, however, we will design our GUI with two notebooks. In order to focus on this feature, we will use functions instead of class methods.  Reading the previous recipe will be a good introduction to this recipe.

How to do it…

In order to use multiple notebooks within the same GUI, we start by creating two frames. The first frame will hold the notebooks and their tabs, while the second frame will serve as the display area for the widgets each tab is designed to display. We use the grid layout manager to arrange the two frames, placing one above the other. Then, we create two notebooks and arrange...