Python in Practice: Create Better Programs Using Concurrency, Libraries, and Patterns

7. Graphical User Interfaces with Python and Tkinter

§7.1. Introduction to Tkinter

§7.2. Creating Dialogs with Tkinter

§7.2.1. Creating a Dialog-Style Application

§7.2.2. Creating Application Dialogs

§7.3. Creating Main-Window Applications with Tkinter

§7.3.1. Creating a Main Window

§7.3.2. Creating Menus

§7.3.3. Creating a Status Bar with Indicators

Well-designed graphical user interface (GUI) applications can present users with the most attractive, innovative, and easy-to-use interfaces. And the more sophisticated the application, the more it can benefit from a custom GUI, especially if the GUI includes application-specific custom widgets.^* By comparison, web applications can be very confusing, with the browser’s menus and toolbars in addition ...