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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

Improving the Look with Styles and Themes

While programs can be perfectly functional with plain text in shades of black, white, and gray, the subtle use of colors, fonts, and images can enhance the visual appeal and usability of even the most utilitarian applications. Your data entry application is no exception. Your boss and your users have brought several issues to your attention, which seem to require the use of Tkinter's styling capabilities. Your boss has informed you that corporate HQ requires all in-house software to prominently display the company logo, while the data entry staff have mentioned a variety of issues with the readability and overall look of the application.

In this chapter, we're going to learn about some features of Tkinter that will help us to solve these issues:

  • We'll learn how to add images to our Tkinter GUI
  • We'll learn how to adjust...
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