Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition - Second Edition

Working with message boxes

Now, let's complete the code for the About and Help menus. The functionality is simple. When a user clicks on the Help or About menu, a message window pops up and waits for the user to respond by clicking on a button. Though we can easily code new Toplevel windows to show the About and Help messages, we will instead use a module called messagebox to achieve this functionality.

The messagebox module provides ready-made message boxes to display a wide variety of messages in applications. The functions available through this module include showinfo, showwarning, showerror, askquestion, askokcancel, askyesno, askyesnocancel, and askretrycancel, as shown in the following screenshot:

To use this module, we simply import ...