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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
Profile icon 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

Creating message boxes – information, warning, and error


A message box is a pop-up window that gives feedback to the user. It can be informational, hinting at potential problems, and even catastrophic errors.

Using Python to create message boxes is very easy.

Getting ready

We will add functionality to the Help | About menu item we created in the previous recipe. The typical feedback to the user when clicking the Help | About menu in most applications is informational. We start with this information and then vary the design pattern to show warnings and errors.

How to do it...

Add the following line of code to the top of the module where the import statements live:

from tkinter import messagebox as mBox

Next, we will create a callback function that will display a message box. We have to locate the code of the callback above the code where we attach the callback to the menu item, because this is still procedural and not OOP code.

Add this code just above the lines where we create the help menu:

# Display...
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