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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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Adding the RecordList view

We'll create the RecordList object in __init__(), just after DataRecordForm, by executing the following code snippet:

        self.recordlist = v.RecordList(self, self.callbacks)
        self.recordlist.grid(row=1, padx=10, sticky='NSEW')

Notice that when we call grid(), we're adding the RecordList view to the grid cell that already contains DataRecordForm. This is intentional. When we do this, Tkinter just stacks the second widget on top of the first, like laying one piece of paper on top of another; we'll add code in a moment to control which view is visible by raising one or the other to the top of the stack. Notice that we also stick the widget to all sides of the cell. Without this code, bits of one widget might be visible ...

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