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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

You're reading from  Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889738
Pages 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Bhaskar Chaudhary Bhaskar Chaudhary
Profile icon Bhaskar Chaudhary

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Meet Tkinter 2. Making a Text Editor 3. Programmable Drum Machine 4. A Game of Chess 5. Building an Audio Player 6. Paint Application 7. Multiple Fun Projects 8. Miscellaneous Tips Index

Tracing Tkinter variables


When you specify a Tkinter variable as textvariable for a widget (textvariable = myvar), the widget automatically gets updated whenever the value of the variable changes. However, there might be times when, in addition to updating the widget, you need to do some extra processing at the time of reading or writing (or modifying) the variable.

Tkinter provides a method to attach a callback method that will be triggered every time the value of a variable is accessed. Thus, the callback acts as a variable observer. The callback method is named trace_variable(self, mode, callback), or simply trace(self, mode, callback).

The mode argument can take a value of r, w, or u, which stand for read, write, or undefined. Depending upon the mode specifications, the callback method is triggered when the variable is read or written.

By default, the callback method gets three arguments. The arguments, in order of their position, are as follows:

  • Name of the Tkinter variable

  • The index of...

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