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Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook A practical solution to your GUI development problems with Python and Tkinter

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622301
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alejandro Rodas de Paz Alejandro Rodas de Paz
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Tkinter FREE CHAPTER 2. Window Layout 3. Customizing Widgets 4. Dialogs and Menus 5. Object-Oriented Programming and MVC 6. Asynchronous Programming 7. Canvas and Graphics 8. Themed Widgets 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction

Tk-themed widgets are a separate collection of Tk widgets, which have a native look and feel, and their style can be highly customized using a specific API.

These classes are defined in the tkinter.ttk module. Apart from defining new widgets such as Treeview and Notebook, this module redefines the implementation of classic Tk widgets such as Button, Label, and Frame.

In this chapter, we will cover not only how to change our application Tk widgets for themed widgets, but also how to style them and use the new widget classes.

The themed Tk widget set was introduced in Tk 8.5, which should not be a problem since Python 3.6 installers let you include version 8.6 of the Tcl/Tk interpreter.

However, you can verify it on any platform by running python -m tkinter from the command line, which starts the following program that outputs the Tcl/Tk version:

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