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Programming Python, 3rd Edition
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Programming Python, 3rd Edition

by Mark Lutz
August 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1600 pages
51h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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, watch for all of the tools introduced here to appear again in the advanced GUI techniques in Chapter 11, the larger GUI examples in Chapter 12, and the remainder of the book at large.

I should point out, though, that this story is not quite complete. Although we’ve covered the entire basic Tkinter widget arsenal, we’ve skipped a handful of newer and more advanced widgets introduced to Tkinter recently:

Spinbox

An Entry used to select among a set or range of values

LabelFrame

A Frame with a border and title around a group of items

PanedWindow

A geometry manager widget containing multiple widgets that can be resized by moving separator lines with the mouse

Moreover, we haven’t even mentioned any of the higher-level widgets available in the popular Pmw and Tix extension packages for Tkinter (described in Chapter 8) or any other third-party packages. For instance, the third-party domain hosts Tree widgets, HTML viewers, font selection dialogs, tables, and much more for Tkinter. See Tkinter, Tk, Tix, and Pmw documentation for more details on additional widgets, and visit the Vaults of Parnassus web site (http://www.vex.net/parnassus/) or search Google for other third-party extensions.

Because it is just a Python/Tkinter program, Python’s standard IDLE development ...

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