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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)

Building the chord progression tutor

The GUI component of the chord progression section is slightly more evolved than the previous two sections. Here's how a typical chord progression GUI looks like:

Notice that this section has the combobox as opposed to two for the earlier sections. Depending on what progression is chosen in the middle combobox, we need to draw a number of buttons, each button representing one chord in the complete chord progression.

In the preceding screenshot, note that the progression combobox has a value of I-V-vi-IV. This is a total of four roman numbers separated by a dash. This means that this chord progression is made up of four chords. Also notice that a few of the roman numbers (I, V, IV, and so on) are written in capital letters and others (vi) are written in small letters. All capital letters in the series denote major chords, while each...