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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from  Python GUI Programming Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785283758
Pages 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Burkhard Meier Burkhard Meier
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters close

Python GUI Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets 2. Layout Management 3. Look and Feel Customization 4. Data and Classes 5. Matplotlib Charts 6. Threads and Networking 7. Storing Data in Our MySQL Database via Our GUI 8. Internationalization and Testing 9. Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library 10. Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet 11. Best Practices Index

Aligning the GUI widgets by embedding frames within frames


We have much better control of our GUI layout if we embed frames within frames. This is what we will do in this recipe.

Getting ready

The dynamic behavior of Python and its GUI modules can create a little bit of a challenge to really get our GUI looking the way we want. Here we will embed frames within frames to get more control of our layout. This will establish a stronger hierarchy among the different UI elements, making the visual appearance easier to achieve.

We will continue to use the GUI we created in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

Here, we will create a top-level frame that will contain other frames and widgets. This will help us to get our GUI layout just the way we want.

In order to do so, we will have to embed our current controls within a central ttk.LabelFrame. This ttk.LabelFrame is a child of the main parent window and all controls will be children of this ttk.LabelFrame.

Up to this point in our recipes, we have assigned...

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