Unexplored widgets

Before we begin packaging up our application, let's have a quick look at some widgets which we have not seen yet. While reading about these widgets, have a think about how you could implement them in one of our existing applications.

The LabelFrame widget

The LabelFrame widget is included with your normal tkinter import and also has a ttk version. Its purpose is to write a label and draw a border around a group of widgets. The label can be either some static text or a reference to a Label widget.

To demonstrate a possible use of this widget, let's make a small script:

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.ttk as ttk

win = tk.Tk()
name_frame = ttk.Frame(win)
address_frame = ttk.Frame(win)

name_label_frame = ttk.LabelFrame(name_frame, text="Name")
address_label = ttk.Label(win, text="Address")
address_label_frame = ttk.LabelFrame(address_frame, labelwidget=address_label)

Our demonstration window will contain some information collection fields for the user's name and address....