May 2018
Beginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
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Tkinter does not provide us with a ready-made login dialog, but it does provide us with a generic Dialog class which can be subclassed to create custom dialogs.
Import this class from tkinter.simpledialog into our views.py file:
from tkinter.simpledialog import Dialog
Let's start with our class declaration and __init__() method:
class LoginDialog(Dialog):
def __init__(self, parent, title, error=''):
self.pw = tk.StringVar()
self.user = tk.StringVar()
self.error = tk.StringVar(value=error)
super().__init__(parent, title=title)
Our class will take a parent as usual, a window title, and an optional error, which will be used in case we need to re-display the dialog with an error message (for example, if the password is ...