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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints - Second Edition

By : Bhaskar Chaudhary
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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints - Second Edition

By: Bhaskar Chaudhary

Overview of this book

Tkinter is the built-in GUI package that comes with standard Python distributions. It is a cross-platform package, which means you build once and deploy everywhere. It is simple to use and intuitive in nature, making it suitable for programmers and non-programmers alike. This book will help you master the art of GUI programming. It delivers the bigger picture of GUI programming by building real-world, productive, and fun applications such as a text editor, drum machine, game of chess, audio player, drawing application, piano tutor, chat application, screen saver, port scanner, and much more. In every project, you will build on the skills acquired in the previous project and gain more expertise. You will learn to write multithreaded programs, network programs, database-driven programs, asyncio based programming and more. You will also get to know the modern best practices involved in writing GUI apps. With its rich source of sample code, you can build upon the knowledge gained with this book and use it in your own projects in the discipline of your choice.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Technical requirements

We will use some more built-in libraries from the standard Python distribution for this chapter. This includes tkinter, os, math, threading, and pickle modules.

To verify that these modules exist, simply run the following statement in your Python3 IDLE interactive prompt:

 >>> import tkinter, os, math, time, threading, pickle 

This should not cause an error, as Python3 comes with these modules built into the distribution.

Other than this, you need to add an extra Python module called pygame. We will be using the version named 1.9.3 Package, which can be downloaded at http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml.

Linux users may additionally want to take a look at the following page for instructions on getting pygame to work with Python 3.x: http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileUbuntu?parent=Compilation.

pygame is a cross-platform package normally used for...