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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example
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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

by David Love
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
340 pages
7h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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The LabelFrame widget

The LabelFrame widget is included with your normal tkinter import and also has a ttk version. Its purpose is to write a label and draw a border around a group of widgets. The label can be either some static text or a reference to a Label widget.

To demonstrate a possible use of this widget, let's make a small script:

import tkinter as tkimport tkinter.ttk as ttkwin = tk.Tk()name_frame = ttk.Frame(win)address_frame = ttk.Frame(win)name_label_frame = ttk.LabelFrame(name_frame, text="Name")address_label = ttk.Label(win, text="Address")address_label_frame = ttk.LabelFrame(address_frame, labelwidget=address_label)

Our demonstration window will contain some information collection fields for the user's name and address. We ...

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