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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming Cookbook Develop functional and responsive user interfaces with tkinter and PyQt5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838827540
Length 486 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Burkhard Meier Burkhard Meier
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets 2. Layout Management FREE CHAPTER 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. Building GUIs with PyQt5 11. Best Practices 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating tabbed widgets

In this recipe, we will create tabbed widgets to further organize our expanding GUI written in tkinter.

Getting ready

To improve our Python GUI using tabs, we will start at the beginning, using as little code as possible. In this recipe, we will create a simple GUI and then add widgets from the previous recipes, placing them in this new tabbed layout.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create Tab controls, which in tkinter are called Notebook:

  1. Create a new Python module and name it GUI_tabbed.py.
  2. At the top of the module, import tkinter:
import...
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Python GUI Programming Cookbook - Third Edition
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