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Textual - Switching Screens in Your Terminal

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Mike Driscoll
Sep 18, 2024
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The Screen is a container for your widgets. These screens occupy the dimensions of your terminal by default. While you can have many different screens in a single application, only one screen may be active at a time.

When you create your App class, Textual will create a screen object implicitly. Yes, Textual requires you to have at least one screen or yo…

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