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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Moving the widgets

While we could put all of our UI-related code in one views file, we have a lot of widget classes that should really be put in their own file to limit the complexity of the views file.

So instead, we're going to move all of the code for our widget classes into the widgets.py file. Widgets include all the classes that implement reusable GUI components, including compound widgets like LabelInput. As we develop more of these, we'll add them to this file.

Open widgets.py and copy in all of the code for ValidatedMixin, DateInput, RequiredEntry, ValidatedCombobox, ValidatedSpinbox, and LabelInput. These are our widgets.

The widgets.py file will need to import any module dependencies used by the code being copied in. We'll need ...

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