Objectives of the chapter

We will, in the process of creating a text editor, take a closer look at some widgets and learn how to tweak them to meet our specific needs.

The following are the key objectives for this project:

• Delving into some commonly used widgets, such as the Menu, Menubutton, Text, Entry, Checkbutton, and Button widgets

• Exploring the filedialog and messagebox modules of Tkinter

• Learning the vital concepts of indexing and tagging, as applied to Tkinter

• Identifying the different types of Toplevel windows