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Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook

By : Alejandro Rodas de Paz
Book Image

Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook

By: Alejandro Rodas de Paz

Overview of this book

As one of the more versatile programming languages, Python is well-known for its batteries-included philosophy, which includes a rich set of modules in its standard library; Tkinter is the library included for building desktop applications. Due to this, Tkinter is a common choice for rapid GUI development, and more complex applications can benefit from the full capabilities of this library. This book covers all of your Tkinter and Python GUI development problems and solutions. Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook starts with an overview of Tkinter classes and at the same time provides recipes for basic topics, such as layout patterns and event handling. Next, we cover how to develop common GUI patterns, such as entering and saving data, navigating through menus and dialogs, and performing long-running actions in the background.You can then make your apps leverage network resources effectively and perform graphical operations on a canvas and related tasks such as detecting collisions between items. Finally, this book covers using themed widgets, an extension of Tk widgets that have a more native look and feel. Finally, this book covers using the canvas and themed widgets. By the end of the book, you will have an in-depth knowledge of Tkinter classes, and will know how to use them to build efficient and rich GUI applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Asking for user confirmation

Other types of dialogs included in Tkinter are those used to ask for user confirmation, such as the ones shown when we want to save a file and are about to override an existing one with the same name.

These dialogs differ from the preceding one because the values returned by the functions will depend on the confirmation button clicked by the user. This way, we can interact with the program to indicate whether to continue or cancel the action.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will cover the remaining dialog functions defined in the tkinter.messagebox module. Each button is labeled with the type of dialog that is opened when clicked:

Since there are a few differences among these dialogs, you can...