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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition

You're reading from   Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition Build nine projects by working with widgets, geometry management, event handling, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837460
Length 422 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Bhaskar Chaudhary Bhaskar Chaudhary
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Preface 1. Meet Tkinter FREE CHAPTER 2. Making a Text Editor 3. Programmable Drum Machine 4. Game of Chess 5. Building an Audio Player 6. Paint Application 7. Piano Tutor 8. Fun with Canvas 9. Multiple Fun Projects 10. Miscellaneous Tips 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding functionality to the remaining buttons


We will now code the features related to the remaining toolbar buttons:

Specifically, we will code the following functions: draw_text, delete_item, fill_item, duplicate_item, move_to_top, drag_item, enlarge_item_size, and reduce_item_size.

Let's start with the code for draw_text. When a user clicks on the draw_text button, we want to show the following options in the top bar:

The user can enter text in the textbox and specify its font size and fill color. Once the user presses the Go button, the text appears on the center of the canvas.

Let us, therefore, define the draw_text_options method as follows (see code 6.08.py):

def draw_text_options(self):
Label(self.top_bar, text='Text:').pack(side="left")
self.text_entry_widget = Entry(self.top_bar, width=20)
self.text_entry_widget.pack(side="left&quot...
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