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Burkhard Meier
Burkhard Meier
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Burkhard Meier

Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA. He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course. He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course. In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team. When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.
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Creating reusable GUI components

We will create reusable GUI components using Python. In this recipe, we will keep it simple by moving our ToolTip class into its own module. Then, we will import and use it to display tooltips over several widgets of our GUI.

Getting ready

We are building our code from Chapter 3, Look and Feel Customization: GUI_tooltip.py. We will start by breaking out our ToolTip class into a separate Python module.

How to do it...

We will create a new Python module and place the ToolTip class code into it and then import this module into our primary...

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Burkhard Meier

Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA. He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course. He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course. In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team. When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.
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