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Python GUI Programming Cookbook
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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

by Burkhard Meier
December 2015
Beginner to intermediate
350 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2. Layout Management

In this chapter we will lay out our GUI using Python 3:

  • Arranging several labels within a label frame widget
  • Using padding to add space around widgets
  • How widgets dynamically expand the GUI
  • Aligning the GUI widgets by embedding frames within frames
  • Creating menu bars
  • Creating tabbed widgets
  • Using the grid layout manager

Introduction

In this chapter, we will explore how to arrange widgets within widgets to create our Python GUI. Learning the fundamentals of GUI layout design will enable us to create great looking GUIs. There are certain techniques that will help us to achieve this layout design.

The grid layout manager is one of the most important layout tools built into tkinter that we will be using.

We can very easily create ...

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ISBN: 9781785283758