Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

Creating our SmilieSelect class

We are going to pop up a small window that contains all available smileys as buttons. When the user clicks on one of these smiley buttons, the image will be inserted into their text_area.

Create a new Python file in your folder called smilieselect.py. In that file, begin with the following code:

import osimport tkinter as tkimport tkinter.ttk as ttkclass SmilieSelect(tk.Toplevel):    smilies_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),                                  'smilies/'))

Our application needs to keep track of where these images are stored on the filesystem, since multiple classes will need to access them. We achieve this by setting a class variable on the SmilieSelect window called smilies_dir.

The smiley images will ...