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Inputting values and displaying status with the Scale and Progressbar

Inputting values and displaying status with the Scale and Progressbar

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Inputting values and displaying status with the Scale and Progressbar

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- If your program is going to take a significant amount of time to perform an operation then you probably want to provide feedback to your user regarding the progress of that task. The progress bar widget provides a familiar looking linear progress bar themed to match the standard look of your operating system. In this video I'll show you how to configure the progress bar to provide the user feedback for tasks that you can estimate the remaining time for. As well as for tasks that may continue to run for an indeterminate amount of time. We'll also look at the scale widget which allows the user to select a value from within a range by moving a marker along a linear slide bar. This type of widget input is useful for things like volume and brightness controls. In a way you can think of the progress bar as the output equivalent for the scale input widget. That's why I decided to include them both in the same video. The progress bar and the scale are both available as theme tk widgets so…

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