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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815925

Length 664 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Tkinter

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Alan D. Moore

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

The Ttk Treeview

For users to be able to view the contents of a CSV file and select records to edit, we'll need to implement a new view in the application capable of displaying tabular data. This record list view will allow our users to browse the content of the file and open records for viewing or editing.

Our users are accustomed to seeing this data in a spreadsheet, laid out in a table-like format, so it makes sense to design our view in a similar fashion.

For building table-like views with selectable rows, Tkinter gives us the Ttk Treeview widget. To build our record list view, we'll need to learn about Treeview.

Anatomy of a Treeview

To help us explore the treeview, let's go through a few basic terms and concepts related to the widget. A treeview is designed to display hierarchical data; that is, data that is organized into nodes, where each node can have exactly one parent node and zero or more child nodes. The following diagram shows an example...