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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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Improving our application's cross-platform compatibility

Our application does pretty well across platforms, but there are some things we can do to improve it:

  • First, our application stores its preferences in the user's home folder, which is not ideal on any platform. We will fix our application to use the correct location on each platform for user configuration files.
  • Second, we're creating our CSV files without specifying any encoding; if a user inserted a unicode character (say, in the Notes field), file saving would raise an exception and fail.
  • Finally, the current menu structure does not really come close to following any of the human interface guidelines we've discussed. We'll implement separate menus for each platform to ensure users ...
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