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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

You're reading from   Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints Master GUI programming in Tkinter as you design, implement, and deliver 10 real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889738
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bhaskar Chaudhary Bhaskar Chaudhary
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meet Tkinter FREE CHAPTER 2. Making a Text Editor 3. Programmable Drum Machine 4. A Game of Chess 5. Building an Audio Player 6. Paint Application 7. Multiple Fun Projects 8. Miscellaneous Tips Index

The icons toolbar and View menu functions


In this iteration, we will add the following functionalities to the text editor:

  • Showing the shortcut icons on the toolbar

  • Displaying line numbers

  • Highlighting the current line

  • Changing the color theme of the editor

Let's start with a simple task first. In this step, we will add shortcut icons to the toolbar as shown in the following screenshot:

You may recall that we have already created a frame to hold these icons. Let's add these icons now.

While adding these icons, we have followed a convention. The icons have been named exactly the same as the corresponding function that handles them. Following this convention has enabled us to loop through a list, simultaneously apply the icon image to each button, and add the command callback from within the loop. All the icons have been placed in the icons folder.

The following code adds an icon (refer to 2.10.py in the code bundle):

icons = ('new_file', 'open_file', 'save', 'cut', 'copy', 'paste', 'undo', 'redo'...
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