Trying to embed a main wxPython app in a main tkinter app
Now that we have created the same GUI using both the Python's built-in tkinter library as well as the wxPython wrapper of the wxWidgets library, we really do need to combine the GUIs we created using these technologies.
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Both the wxPython and the tkinter libraries have their own advantages. In online forums such as http://stackoverflow.com/, we often see questions such as, which one is better? Which GUI toolkit should I use? This suggests that we have to make an "either-or" decision. We do not have to make such a decision.
One of the main challenges in doing so is that each GUI toolkit has to have its own event loop.
In this recipe, we will try to embed a simple wxPython GUI by calling ...
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