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Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook A practical solution to your GUI development problems with Python and Tkinter

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622301
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alejandro Rodas de Paz Alejandro Rodas de Paz
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Tkinter FREE CHAPTER 2. Window Layout 3. Customizing Widgets 4. Dialogs and Menus 5. Object-Oriented Programming and MVC 6. Asynchronous Programming 7. Canvas and Graphics 8. Themed Widgets 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a menu bar

Complex GUIs typically use menu bars to organize the actions and navigations that are available in our application. This pattern is also used to group operations that are closely related, such as the File menu included in most text editors.

Tkinter natively supports these menus, which are displayed with the look and feel of the target desktop environment. Therefore, you do not have to simulate them with frames or labels, because you would lose the cross-platform features that have already been built into Tkinter.

Getting ready

We will start by adding a menu bar to a root window with a nested drop-down menu. On Windows 10, this is displayed as follows:

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