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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming with Tkinter Develop responsive and powerful GUI applications with Tkinter

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835886
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alan D. Moore Alan D. Moore
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Preface 1. Introduction to Tkinter 2. Designing GUI Applications with Tkinter FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Basic Forms with Tkinter and ttk Widgets 4. Reducing User Error with Validation and Automation 5. Planning for the Expansion of Our Application 6. Creating Menus with Menu and Tkinter Dialogs 7. Navigating Records with Treeview 8. Improving the Look with Styles and Themes 9. Maintaining Cross-Platform Compatibility 10. Creating Automated Tests with unittest 11. Improving Data Storage with SQL 12. Connecting to the Cloud 13. Asynchronous Programming with Thread and Queue 14. Visualizing Data Using the Canvas Widget 15. Packaging with setuptools and cx_Freeze 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing validated widgets in our form

Now that you know how to validate your widgets, you have your work cut out for you! We have 16 input widgets, and you'll have to write code like that shown in the previous section for all of them to get the behavior we need. Along the way, you'll need to make sure the widgets respond consistently to errors and present a consistent API to the application.

If that sounds like something you'd like to put off indefinitely, I can't blame you. Maybe there's a way we can cut down the amount of code we need to write.

Exploiting the power of multiple inheritance

So far, we have learned that Python allows us to create new classes by subclassing, inheriting features...

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