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Prompting users with the Messagebox and dialogs

Prompting users with the Messagebox and dialogs

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Prompting users with the Messagebox and dialogs

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- [Instructor] If an error occurs in your program, or the user tries to perform an action, that they're not supposed to. You might want to alert them with a pop-up message about the problem. We've already seen how we can create a new window with the top-level widget to pop up and display information to the user. In this video, we'll look at another way to accomplish that by using the pre-built message box methods to easily create pop-up alerts for the user. We'll also learn how to use the file dialog, and color chooser methods to present the user with familiar selection menus from their operating system. These dialogs and message boxes are not regular Tk widgets. We don't need to create a root widget to assign as their parent, or even import the whole Tkinter package. To use the message box, we only need to import the message box module from the Tkinter package. To do that, we can type from tkinter import message box. Now, that I've imported the message box module, I can create a…

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