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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 form

Instead of building our form directly on the main application window, we're going to build our form as its own object. Initially, this makes it easier to maintain a nice layout, and later down the road it will make it easier for us to expand our application. Let's perform the following steps for building our form:

  1. Once again, we'll subclass Tkinter.Frame to build this module. After the LabelInput class definition, begin a new class as follows:
class DataRecordForm(tk.Frame):
    """The input form for our widgets"""

    def __init__(self, parent, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(parent, *args, **kwargs)

This should be familiar by now. We subclass Frame, define our constructor, and call super().__init__() to initialize the underlying ...

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