This chapter is the second in a two-part tour of the Tkinter library. It picks up where Chapter 9 left off and covers some of the more advanced widgets and tools in the Tkinter arsenal. Among the topics presented in this chapter:
Menu
, Menubutton
, and OptionMenu
widgets
The Scrollbar
widget: for
scrolling text, lists, and canvases
The Listbox
widget: a
list of multiple selections
The Text
widget: a
general text display and editing tool
The Canvas
widget: a
general graphical drawing tool
The grid
table-based
geometry manager
Time-based tools: after
,
update
, wait
, and threads
Basic Tkinter animation techniques
Clipboards, erasing widgets and windows, and so on
By the time you’ve finished this chapter, you will have seen the bulk of the Tkinter library, and you will have all the information you need to compose larger, portable user interfaces of your own. You’ll also be ready to tackle the larger GUI techniques and examples presented in Chapters 11 and 12. As a segue to the next chapter, this one also closes with a look at the PyDemos and PyGadgets launcher toolbars—GUIs used to start larger GUI examples.
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