GUI intro and dialog boxes
16-minute lesson · module-gui-01
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GUI intro and dialog boxes
16-minute lesson · module-gui-01
- Explain what a GUI is and how tkinter relates to Python.
- Create a root window and start the tkinter event loop.
- Add a Label to a window and display text.
- Pop up a standard message or input dialog with the messagebox and simpledialog modules.
Source attribution
Status: adapted
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition — source · GUI and Event Driven Programming / Intro GUI / Standard Dialog Boxes
Adaptation notes. Read-along lesson. tkinter needs a native windowing system and a running event loop, neither of which exists in the Pyodide browser sandbox, so there is no graded coding step. All code is for reading and for running on the student's own computer. Examples are ours; prose is original.
License notes. Original chapter is GNU FDL 1.3 (Brad Miller, David Ranum, and the upstream Elkner/Downey/Meyers text). No verbatim text reproduced.