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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, 2nd edition - Second Edition

By : Alan D. Moore
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, 2nd edition - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Alan D. Moore

Overview of this book

Tkinter is widely used to build GUIs in Python due to its simplicity. In this book, you’ll discover Tkinter’s strengths and overcome its challenges as you learn to develop fully featured GUI applications. Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, Second Edition, will not only provide you with a working knowledge of the Tkinter GUI library, but also a valuable set of skills that will enable you to plan, implement, and maintain larger applications. You’ll build a full-blown data entry application from scratch, learning how to grow and improve your code in response to continually changing user and business needs. You’ll develop a practical understanding of tools and techniques used to manage this evolving codebase and go beyond the default Tkinter widget capabilities. You’ll implement version control and unit testing, separation of concerns through the MVC design pattern, and object-oriented programming to organize your code more cleanly. You’ll also gain experience with technologies often used in workplace applications, such as SQL databases, network services, and data visualization libraries. Finally, you’ll package your application for wider distribution and tackle the challenge of maintaining cross-platform compatibility.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index
Appendices

Implementing Tkinter dialogs

Tkinter contains a number of submodules that provide ready-made dialog windows for different situations. These include:

  • messagebox, for displaying simple messages and warnings
  • filedialog, for prompting the user for a file or folder path
  • simpledialog, for requesting string, integer, or float values from a user

In this section, we're going to explore these dialogs and use them to solve some of the problems with our application.

Error dialogs with the Tkinter messagebox

The best way to display simple dialog boxes in Tkinter is by using the tkinter.messagebox module, which provides a variety of information-display dialog types.

Since it is a submodule, we need to explicitly import it before we can use it, like so:

from tkinter import messagebox

Rather than having a lot of widget classes that we create instances of, the messagebox module provides a selection of convenience functions for making use of...