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Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook

You're reading from Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook A practical solution to your GUI development problems with Python and Tkinter

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788622301

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Tkinter

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Alejandro Rodas de Paz

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Tkinter FREE CHAPTER

2. Window Layout

3. Customizing Widgets

4. Dialogs and Menus

5. Object-Oriented Programming and MVC

6. Asynchronous Programming

7. Canvas and Graphics

8. Themed Widgets

9. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Setting widget fonts

In Tkinter, it is possible to customize the font used in widgets that display text to the users, such as buttons, labels, and entries. By default, the font is system-specific, but you can change it using the font option.

Getting ready

The following application allows users to dynamically change the font family and size of a label with static text. Try around different values to see the results of the font configuration:

How to do it...

We will have two widgets to modify the font configuration: a drop-down option with font family names and a spinbox...

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Authors (1)

Alejandro Rodas de Paz

Alejandro Rodas de Paz

Alejandro Rodas de Paz is a computer engineer from Seville, Spain. He has developed several projects with Python, from web crawlers to artificial intelligence algorithms. He has also used Tkinter for building an application for the lighting system of the city of Almere (Netherlands). Prior to this publication, Alejandro co-wrote Packt's title Python Game Development by Example, and collaborated as a technical reviewer on the book Tkinter GUI Application Development Hotshot.

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