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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 the Windows menu

After studying the Microsoft user experience interaction guidelines, you deem the following changes are necessary to make our menu Windows-friendly:

  • file->quit should be changed to file->exit, and there should be no accelerator for it. Windows uses Alt-F4 to close programs, and this is handled by Windows automatically.
  • Windows can handle commands in the menu bar just fine, and the guidelines encourage this for frequently used functionality. We'll move our Record List and New Record commands directly to the main menu.
  • Options is supposed to go under a Tools menu, separated from the rest of the items in tools. Although we have nothing else under tools at the moment, we likely will in the future, so we'll create this. ...
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