Python Programming On Win32

Tkinter Sample Code

We have included a sample Doubletalk browser written in Tkinter. This is a fully functional transaction viewer and editor application and is implemented in tkBrowser.py. This implements a number of features that demonstrate how to build powerful applications in Tkinter. A number of dialogs are presented, including the transaction list, and the detail for each specific transaction. To show how simple basic drawing and charting is, a graphical view of each account is also provided. Rather than labor over the details of this sample, the best thing to do is just to run it. Then once you have a feel for the functionality, peruse the source code to see the implementation. There are ample comments and documentation strings included less than 700 lines of source. Figure 20.3 shows our final application in action.

Figure 20.3. The Tkinter Doubletalk browser in action

The second sample is TkDemo.py, which is a demonstration of all the Tkinter core widgets. It is highly animated and provides a good feel for the basic operation of these widgets.

As mentioned previously, Tkinter is the standard GUI for Python applications, therefore you can find a large number of resources both in the standard Python documentation and referenced via the Python web site.