Designing the application

With our specification in hand and our requirements clear, it's time to start designing our solution. We'll start with the form GUI component itself.

We're going to create a basic design for our form in the following three steps:

1. Determine the appropriate input widget for each data field
2. Group together related items to create a sense of organization
3. Layout our widgets in their groups on a form sheet

Exploring Tkinter input widgets

Like all toolkits, Tkinter offers a variety of input widgets for different kinds of data. However, ttk offers additional widget types and enhances some (but not all!) of Tkinter's native widgets. The following table offers advice on which widgets...