Python GUI Programming Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create Tab controls, which in tkinter are called Notebook:

1. Create a new Python module and name it GUI_tabbed.py.
2. At the top of the module, import tkinter:

import tkinter as tkfrom tkinter import ttk

3. Create an instance of the Tk class:

win = tk.Tk()

4. Add a title via the title attribute:

win.title ("Python GUI")

5. Create tabControl using the ttk Notebook:

tabControl = ttk.Notebook(win)

6. Add the tab to tabControl:

tabControl.add(tab1, text-'Tab 1')

7. Use pack to make the control visible inside the GUI:

tabControl.pack(expand=1, fill="both")

The preceding instructions produce the following code, which can be found in the GUI_tabbed.py file:

8. Run the preceding code. The following screenshot shows the ...