Preventing the GUI from being resized

Getting ready

This recipe extends the previous one. Therefore, it is necessary to have typed Recipe 1 yourself into a project of your own or downloaded the code from https://www.packtpub.com/support.

How to do it...

We are preventing the GUI from being resized.

import tkinter as tk        # 1 imports

win = tk.Tk()               # 2 Create instance
win.title("Python GUI")     # 3 Add a title       
    
win.resizable(0, 0)         # 4 Disable resizing the GUI

win.mainloop()              # 5 Start GUI

Running the code creates this GUI:

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How it works...

Line 4 prevents the Python GUI from being resized.

Running this code will result in a GUI similar to the one we created in Recipe ...

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