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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)

Summary

We worked with several useful standard modules such as functools, itertools, and json.

We saw how to work with JSON files. JSON helps us present complex rules about our domain and are an easier and more portable alternative to storing the same information in say a database.

We looked at the practical usage of widget.grid_propagate(False) along with some of its limitations in terms of non-responsiveness.

We saw the usage of OrderedDict from the collections module and partials from the functools module.

We looked at various root window methods such as root.geometry, root.winfo_screenwidth, and root.resizable.

We looked at widget.update_idletasks, which lets us clear all pending updates without having to wait for the next run of mainloop.

Finally, we looked at the steps involved in making a window responsive in Tkinter.