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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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Deciding how to address these problems

It's clear you need to implement a way to select a file and toggle the auto-populate features of the form. First, you consider just adding controls to the main application for both of these, and make this quick mock-up:

It doesn't take long for you to realize that this is not a great design, and certainly not one that will accommodate growth. Your users don't want to have to type a file path and filename blindly into the box, nor do they want a lot of extra fields cluttering up the UI.

Fortunately, Tkinter offers some tools that will help us to solve these problems:

  • File dialogs: Tkinter's filedialog ...
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