Creating a GUI the way we just did works okay for very small scripts, but a much more scalable approach is to subclass Tkinter widgets to create component widgets that we will then assemble into a completed application.
Subclassing is simply a way of creating a new class based on an existing one, adding or changing only what is different in the new class. We will use subclassing extensively in this book to extend the functionality of Tkinter widgets.
Let's build a more robust Hello World script that demonstrates some patterns we'll use throughout the remainder of the book. Take a look at the following steps:
- Create a file called better_hello_tkinter.py and begin with the following lines:
"""A better ...
