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Python GUI Programming Cookbook. - Third Edition

You're reading from  Python GUI Programming Cookbook. - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781838827540
Pages 486 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Burkhard Meier Burkhard Meier
Profile icon Burkhard Meier

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets 2. Layout Management 3. Look and Feel Customization 4. Data and Classes 5. Matplotlib Charts 6. Threads and Networking 7. Storing Data in Our MySQL Database via Our GUI 8. Internationalization and Testing 9. Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library 10. Building GUIs with PyQt5 11. Best Practices 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating tabbed widgets

In this recipe, we will create tabbed widgets to further organize our expanding GUI written in tkinter.

Getting ready

To improve our Python GUI using tabs, we will start at the beginning, using as little code as possible. In this recipe, we will create a simple GUI and then add widgets from the previous recipes, placing them in this new tabbed layout.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create Tab controls, which in tkinter are called Notebook:

  1. Create a new Python module and name it GUI_tabbed.py.
  2. At the top of the module, import tkinter:
import...
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