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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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Tkinter's event system

Each time the user interacts with a program in some way—usually via the use of a mouse and keyboard—an event is sent to the application. It is these events that cause things to happen, such as the letters appearing on my screen as I press keys on the keyboard while writing this book.

Tkinter's widgets have a default behavior for certain keys, and the operating system you are using will have default behaviors too. For example, Alt + F4 will close the active window on a lot of operating systems, unless specifically unbound from this action.

When writing an application using Tkinter, there is a very simple and succinct API which allows the programmer to listen for keyboard presses or mouse movement and execute code in ...

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