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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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Window zoomed state

Windowing environments have the concept of a "zoomed" window, which takes over the screen completely.

On Windows or macOS, it can be activated using the root window's state() method, as follows:

from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
root.state('zoomed')
root.mainloop()

On Windows or macOS, this creates a window that takes over the screen; on Linux or BSD, however, it raises an exception because X11 does not provide anything for setting a zoomed state. 

On X11, this is accomplished by turning on the Window's -zoomed attribute as follows:

root.attributes('-zoomed', True)

Unfortunately, the preceding code raises an exception on Windows and macOS. If you need to be able to set this state in a program, you'll need to use some platform-specific ...

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