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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

Changing the cursor icon

Tkinter allows you to customize the cursor icon while hovering over a widget. This behavior is sometimes enabled by default, like the Entry widget that displays an I-beam pointer.

Getting ready

The following application shows how to display a busy cursor while it is performing a long-running operation, and a cursor with a question mark, typically used in help menus:

How to do it...

The mouse pointer icon can be changed using the cursor option. In our example, we used the watch value to display the native busy cursor and question_arrow to display...

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