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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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 a tooltip

In this final iteration, we will add a tooltip named the Balloon widget to all the buttons in our player.

A tooltip is a small popup that shows up when you hover your mouse over the Bound widget (buttons, in our case). A typical tooltip for the application will look as follows:

Although core Tkinter has many useful widgets, it is far from complete. For us, the tooltip or Balloon widget is not provided as a core Tkinter widget. Therefore, we look for these widgets in what are called Tkinter extensions.

These extensions are nothing but a collection of extended Tkinter widgets, just like the custom seek bar that we created.

There are literally hundreds of Tkinter extensions. In fact, we just wrote our own Tkinter extension in this chapter.

However, the following are some of the popular Tkinter extensions:

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