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Lesson 4 of my PDF written tutorials. Building GUI's in Python - using Tkinter - Python's built in toolkit for GUI development

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Tkinter GUI Lesson4

Lesson 4 of my PDF written tutorials. Building GUI's in Python - using Tkinter - Python's built in toolkit for GUI development

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comTkinterGUIBasics

Example4:TkinterGUIWindow/TextEntry
Inthisexample,wewillseehowtoaddatextentryboxintoourGUIwindow.Asidefromafewsmallvisual
detailseverythingelseisthesame.Thedetailsareuptoyou,Irecommendchangingthecolours,orfontsizes
andvalueswhrereyouwantto.Learnhowtosetupawindowthatsuitswhatyouwantittobeusedfor.
InthisPythonscriptThereisatextentrybox.Itallowstheusertotypeanytextintoit,butwehavegonea
stepfurther.Thetextentryboxhasabuttonlinkedtoit,andwhenthebuttonispressedthewrittentextgets
printedintheShellwindow.
Heresthenewcode:
from tkinter import *
top = Tk()
top.title('Tkinter GUI - Example 4')
top.minsize(400, 400)
top.configure(bg='orange')
lbl = Label(top, text='Assigning Functions To Buttons', bg='yellow', fg='blue', font='14')
lbl.pack()
def hello_callback(): print('Button Clicked')
def callback():
print(ent.get())
btn = Button(top, text='Click Here', font='freesansbold, 14', command=hello_callback)
btn.pack()
exit_button=Button(top, text='Exit', fg='red', bg='black', font='freesansbold, 14', command=quit)
exit_button.pack(side=BOTTOM)
ent = Entry(top)
ent.pack()
btn2 = Button(top, text='Print Text', fg='blue', font='bold, 14', width=15, command=callback)
btn2.pack()
top.mainloop()

Sowehaveaddedanewfunction:

def callback()

Thenewfunctionhasalinereading print(ent.get()) WhichtellsPythonto'Get'thestringthatis


enteredintheentrybox,and'print'tellsPythontosendittotheShellasaPrintedmessage.Bymakingita
functionlikethis,wecanassignitasacommandtoabutton(ourclickherebutton)
Againafewvisualdetailshavemayhavebeenalteredbutbynowyoushouldbeabletochangethese
yourselfasit'snothingwehaven'tcoveredalready.
Inthenextexamplewewillrewriteanexistingprogramofminethattakesuserinput,performsacalculation
withit,thengivesitbacktotheuserbydisplayingitintheGUIItisaFeettoMetersconverterapp/
program.

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