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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

You're reading from   Tkinter GUI Programming by Example Learn to create modern GUIs using Tkinter by building real-world projects in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627481
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Love David Love
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meet Tkinter FREE CHAPTER 2. Back to the Command Line – Basic Blackjack 3. Jack is Back in Style – the Blackjack GUI 4. The Finishing Touches – Sound and Animation 5. Creating a Highly Customizable Python Editor 6. Color Me Impressed! – Adding Syntax Highlighting 7. Not Just for Restaurants – All About Menus 8. Talk Python to Me – a Chat Application 9. Connecting – Getting Our Chat Client Online 10. Making Friends – Finishing Our Chat Application 11. Wrapping Up – Packaging Our Applications to Share 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Menu widget

As its name implies, the Menu widget is a widget that can hold many selectable options. Each option can be assigned a label, such as paste, and a command, which (like many other widgets) allows us to call a Python function when the user clicks on it.

We will be adding two different types of menus to our text editor in this chapter: a menu bar along the top of the window and a right-click context menu. Both are implemented using the same widget, but the way in which the widgets are added to the application differs.

Let's take some time to look at each method we will be using to add menus into our text editor, beginning with the top menu bar.

A menu bar

The top menu bar of an application usually just contains...

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