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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

Displaying context menus

Tkinter menus do not necessarily have to be located on the menu bar, but they can actually be freely placed at any coordinate. These types of menus are called context menus, and they are usually displayed when users right-click on an item.

Context menus are widely used in GUI applications; for instance, file browsers display them to offer the available operations over the selected file, so it is intuitive for users to know how to interact with them.

Getting ready

We will build a context menu for a Text widget to display some common actions of text editors, such as Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete:

How to do...

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