Programming Python, 3rd Edition

10.1. "On Today's Menu: Spam, Spam, and Spam" 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. Amon...

10.2. Menus are the pull-down lists you're accustomed to seeing at the top of a window (or the entire display, if you're accustomed to seeing them on a Macintosh). Move the mouse cursor to the menu bar at the top and click on a name (e.g., F...

10.3. Listboxes and Scrollbars Listbox widgets allow you to display a list of items for selection, and Scrollbars are designed for navigating through the contents of other widgets. Because it is common to use these widgets together, let's study th...

10.4. Text It's been said that Tkinter's strongest points may be its and Canvas widgets. Both provide a remarkable amount of functionality. For instance, the Tkinter widget was powerful enough to implement the web pages of Grail, an e...

10.5. Canvas When it comes to graphics, the Tkinter widget is the most free-form device in the library. It's a place to draw shapes, move objects dynamically, and place other kinds of widgets. The canvas is based on a structur...

10.6. Grids So far, we've been arranging widgets in displays by calling their pack methodsan interface to the packer geometry manager in Tkinter. This section introduces grid, the most commonly used alternative to the packer. ...

10.7. Time Tools, Threads, and Animation The last stop on our widget tour is the most unique. Tkinter also comes with a handful of tools that have to do with the event-driven programming model, not graphics displayed on a computer scree...

10.8. The End of the Tour And that's a wrap for our tour around the Tkinter library. You have now seen all the core widgets and tools previewed at the end of Chapter 8 (flip back for a summary of territory covered on this tour). For more details, ...

10.9. The PyDemos and PyGadgets Launchers To close out this chapter, let's explore the implementations of the two GUIs used to run major book examples. The following GUIs, PyDemos and PyGadgets, are simply GUIs for launching other GUI...