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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)

Using the Treeview widget

In this recipe, we will introduce the ttk.Treeview class, a versatile widget that lets us display information in both tabular and hierarchical structures.

Each item added to the ttk.Treeview class is divided into one or more columns, where the first one may contain text and an icon and serves to indicate whether the item can be expanded and show more nested items. The rest of the columns contain the values that we want to display for each row.

The first row of the ttk.Treeview class is composed of headings that identify each column by its name and can be optionally hidden.

Getting ready

Using ttk.Treeview, we will tabulate the information of a list of contacts stored in a CSV file, similar to what...