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programming toolbox

Your Programming Toolbox

You’ve got Chapter 8 under your belt.
CHAPTER 8 in this chapter:
Let’s look back at what you’ve learned

Programming T ools

* MVC - Model, View, Controller.
* Think of widgets as views. Python T ools
* Use data models to keep your data

separate from your views.
* Radio buttons work together if * T ext() - handle multi-line text in
* Entry() - used by tkinter to enter
small amounts of text - one line.
they share a model.
* Object API - the application tkinter.

programmer interface provided by an * Entry fields are indexed from 0.
object. * T ext fields are indexed with a “row.

* Populate a GUI widget dynamically column" string, starting with “1.0".
and on-demand. views informed about data changes.
* The tkinter controller - keeps the

* StringVar() - a tkinter stringed
if by magic.”
variable that can update the GUI “as

* RadioButton() - useful for when
you want to select one item from a
group in tkinter.

* OptionMenu() - useful for when
you want to select one item from a
LARGE group of items in tkinter.

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