Skip to Content
Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
book

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
Content preview from Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

Specifying an event sequence

To create an event with event_generate(), we need to pass in an event sequence string, in the format <EventModifier-EventType-EventDetail>.

Event type specifies the kind of event we're sending, such as a keystroke, mouse click, windowing event, and so on.

Tkinter has around 30 event types, but you will typically only need to work with the following:

Event types
Description
ButtonPress Also Button, represents a mouse button click
ButtonRelease Represents lifting off a mouse button
KeyPress Also Key, represents pressing a keyboard key
KeyRelease Represents lifting off a keyboard key
FocusIn Represents giving focus to a widget
FocusOut Represents exiting a widget
Enter Represents the mouse cursor ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Python GUI Programming with Tkinter - Second Edition

Python GUI Programming with Tkinter - Second Edition

Alan D. Moore

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781788835886Supplemental Content