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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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Building our application class

Let's take a look at the following steps for building our application class:

  1. Move down under the Application class doc string (the line that reads Application root window) and start an __init__() method for Application, as follows:
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)        self.title("ABQ Data Entry Application")        self.resizable(width=False, height=False)
  1. Once again we make the familiar call to super().__init__(), passing along any arguments or keyword arguments.
Note that we don't pass in a parent widget here, since Application is the root window.
  1. We call .title() to set our application's title string; this isn't required, but it will certainly help users who are running multiple ...
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