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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, 2nd edition

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, 2nd edition Design and build functional and user-friendly GUI applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801815925
Length 664 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Alan D. Moore Alan D. Moore
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Tkinter 2. Designing GUI Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Basic Forms with Tkinter and Ttk Widgets 4. Organizing Our Code with Classes 5. Reducing User Error with Validation and Automation 6. Planning for the Expansion of Our Application 7. Creating Menus with Menu and Tkinter Dialogs 8. Navigating Records with Treeview and Notebook 9. Improving the Look with Styles and Themes 10. Maintaining Cross-Platform Compatibility 11. Creating Automated Tests with unittest 12. Improving Data Storage with SQL 13. Connecting to the Cloud 14. Asynchronous Programming with Thread and Queue 15. Visualizing Data Using the Canvas Widget 16. Packaging with setuptools and cxFreeze 17. A: A Quick Primer on reStructuredText 18. B: A Quick SQL Tutorial 19. Other Books You May Enjoy
20. Index
Appendices

Working with fonts in Tkinter

Some of our data entry users have complained that the font of the application is just a little too small to read easily, but others dislike the idea of you increasing it because it makes the application too big for the screen. To accommodate all the users, we can add a configuration option that allows them to set a preferred font size and family.

Configuring Tkinter fonts

Any widget in Tkinter that displays text allows us to specify a font, typically through its font configuration property. For widgets that support tags, we can also specify font settings for each tag. We've been using the font argument as far back as Chapter 1, Introduction to Tkinter, but now it's time to take a deeper look into what Tkinter allows us to do with fonts.

There are three ways of specifying a widget's font in Tkinter: using a string, using a tuple, and using a Font object. Let's take a look at each one.

Configuring fonts with strings and...

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