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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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Using our FindWindow class

As you may have guessed, the FindWindow class needs to be imported at the beginning of the file:

from findwindow import FindWindow

Now, we need to create an instance whenever the user presses a key combination. Typically, a Find and Replace window appears on Ctrl and F or Ctrl and R. I will use Ctrl and F for this application:

def bind_events(self):    ...    self.bind('<Control-f>', self.show_find_window)def show_find_window(self, event=None):    FindWindow(self.text_area)

A method called show_find_window is created, which will be responsible for showing our FindWindow popup.

Inside this method, all we need to do is instantiate the FindWindow class, passing it our TextArea to act as its master. The Toplevel class which ...

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