Summary
In this chapter, we overhauled the look and feel of our application for both aesthetic and usability improvements. You learned how to use images and icons in your application using PhotoImage and BitmapImage, and how to extend image format support using Pillow. You learned to assign fonts to widgets, and to change the settings for built-in fonts. You learned how to work with color and font settings for default Tkinter widgets and how to use tags to style individual Treeview items and Text widget contents. We explored the intricate world of Ttk styles and learned to create custom styles based on the built-in defaults. Finally, we applied our knowledge of styling to the ABQ Data Entry application to make it more aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly.
In the next chapter, we'll take steps to make sure our program runs effectively across major desktop platforms. You'll learn strategies to avoid cross-platform pitfalls in both general Python programming and Tkinter...
