Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition - Second Edition

Miscellaneous

The following is a list of miscellaneous widgets offered by Pmw:

• Balloon
• Blt (used for graph generation)
• The Color Module functions

Pmw offers a large list of extended widgets. For a demonstration of all these widgets, browse the Pmw package that you installed earlier and look for a directory named demo. Within demo, look for a file named All.py, which demonstrates all of these Pmw extensions with a sample working code.

Pmw provides the Balloon widget implementation, which will be used in the current example. Begin by importing Pmw into the namespace, as follows (see code 5.09—view.py):

import Pmw 

Next, instantiate the Balloon widget within the create_gui method, as follows:

self.balloon = Pmw.Balloon(self.root) 

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