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Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT

By : Bhaskar Chaudhary
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Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT

By: Bhaskar Chaudhary

Overview of this book

<p>Tkinter is the built-in GUI package that comes with standard python distributions. This means it is easy to get started right away, without any extra installation or configuration. Tkinter’s strength lies in its simplicity of use and its intuitive nature which makes it suited for programmers and non-programmers alike. Once you get started, you will be surprised to see how a few lines of code can produce powerful GUI applications.</p> <p>Tkinter GUI Application Development Hotshot helps you learn the art of GUI programming—building real-world, productive and fun applications like text editor, drum machine, game of chess, media player, drawing application and many more. Each subsequent project builds on the skills acquired in the previous project. Also, learn to write multi-threaded and multi layered applications using Tkinter. Get to know modern best practices involved in writing GUI programs. Tkinter GUI Application Development Hotshot comes with a rich source of sample codes that you can use in your own projects in any discipline of your choice.</p> <p>Starting with a high level overview of Tkinter that covers the most important concepts involved in writing a GUI application, the book then takes you through a series of real world projects of increasing complexity, developing one project per chapter. After you have developed five full projects, the book provides you with some bare-bone skeleton codes for a few functional but incomplete projects, challenging you to put your skills to test by completing them.</p> <p>Finally, you are provided with tips for writing reusable, scalable, and quality GUI code for larger projects. The appendices provide a quick reference sheet for Tkinter.</p>

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Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT
Bhaskar Chaudhary
Oct, 2013 | 362 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT
Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Meet Tkinter
Meet Tkinter
Mission Briefing
The root window – your drawing board
Widgets – building blocks for your GUI program
Getting to know core Tkinter widgets
Geometry management
Events and callbacks – adding life to programs
Doing it in style
Mission Accomplished
A Hotshot Challenge
2
Making a Text Editor like Notepad
Making a Text Editor like Notepad
Mission Briefing
Setting up the widgets
Leveraging the power of built-in Text widget options
Indexing and tagging
Working with forms and dialogs
Working with message boxes
The icon toolbar and View menu functions
Event handling and the context menu
Mission Accomplished
A Hotshot Challenge
3
Programmable Drum Machine
Programmable Drum Machine
Mission Briefing
Setting up the GUI in OOP
Completing the pattern editor
Loading drum samples
Playing the drum machine
Tkinter and threading
More beat patterns
Object persistence
ttk-themed widgets
Mission Accomplished
A Hotshot Challenge
4
Game of Chess
Game of Chess
Mission Briefing
Structuring our program
Structuring chessboard-and-pieces-related data
Adding pieces on the board
Enforcing rules for pieces' movement
The chessboard logic
Making the chess functional
Adding menu and an info frame
Mission Accomplished
A Hotshot Challenge
5
Audio Player
Audio Player
Mission Briefing
Getting the audio to play
Adding a playlist
Adding more controls to the player
Adding the top display console
Looping over tracks
Adding the contextual menu
Adding a tooltip and finalizing our player
Mission Accomplished
A Hotshot Challenge
6
Drawing an Application
Drawing an Application
Mission Briefing
Developing a bare bone GUI framework
Structuring our drawing program
Handling mouse events
Drawing items on the canvas
Setting the options toolbar at the top
Adding some more features
Mission Accomplished
A Hotshot Challenge
7
Some Fun Project Ideas
Some Fun Project Ideas
Mission Briefing
Building a screen saver
Building a Snake game
Creating a Weather Reporter
Creating a phonebook application
Graphing with Tkinter
Mission Accomplished
A Hotshot Challenge
Miscellaneous Tips
Miscellaneous Tips
Mission Briefing
Tracing Tkinter variables
Widget traversal
Validating user input
Formatting widget data
More on fonts
Working with Unicode characters
Tkinter class's hierarchy
Custom-made mixins
Tips for code cleanup and program optimization
Distributing the Tkinter application
Limitations of Tkinter
Alternatives to Tkinter
Getting interactive help
Tkinter in Python 3.
Conclusion
Quick Reference Sheets
Quick Reference Sheets
Options common to widgets
Widget-specific options
The pack manager
The grid manager
The place manager
The event types
The event modifiers
The event details
Other event-related methods
List of available cursor
The basic widget methods
ttk widgets
The Toplevel window methods
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Ankur Aggarwal is currently working in the Education and Research department of Infosys Limited. He loves to play with Unix and Linux tools. He has created various automation tools using Python, PHP, and is learning Linux Kernel Development. He is also an author of various international magazines and portals such as Open Source For You (previously Linux For You), Ubuntumanual.org, and Richnusgeek. He runs a Linux based blog too on www.flossstuff.wordpress.com. He loves coding and listening to metal music. He is a die hard fan of Iron Maiden and loves playing the guitar in his free time.

Mike Driscoll has been programming in Python since Spring 2006. He enjoys writing about Python on his blog: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/. He also occasionally writes for the Python Software Foundation, i-Programmer, and Developer Zone. He enjoys photography and reading a good book. Mike has also been a technical reviewer for Python 3 Object Oriented Programming, Python 2.6 Graphics Cookbook, and the Python Web Development Beginner's Guide among others.

I would like to thank my wonderful wife, Evangeline, for always supporting me. I would also like to thank friends and family for all that they do to help me. And I would like to thank Jesus Christ for saving me.

Anshuman Pandey holds a Bachelor's Degree in Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. Being a software developer, he is always eager to learn and build upon new technologies. He is also an avid blogger, endurance runner, and tennis enthusiast. Currently employed as an Analyst at a software consulting firm, Anshuman has extensive hands on experience with data analysis and programming. He picked up Python by himself as an undergraduate, and has since worked on a variety of Python projects as well as reviewed books on the subject.

Being enthusiastic about sharing ideas and collaborating with like-minded individuals, Anshuman is an up-and-coming blogger. He manages his own website "Twisted Thoughts", where he shares his thoughts on everything from cool new technologies and nifty software tricks to tennis and life lessons. His blog has proved to be a good portal to network with young professionals with similar interests.

I would like to thank my parents for being supportive in my first venture as a book reviewer, my band of friends for encouraging me, and Packt Publishing for giving me the wonderful opportunity to review this book.

Alejandro Rodas de Paz is a Computer Engineer from the University of Seville (Spain). He started programming in Python for artificial intelligence and data mining projects,and discovered Tkinter as an easy and effective way to develop GUI applications. He worked at research institutions such as the Web Engineering and Early Testing group, and the MediaLAB Amsterdam.

I would like to thank my grandmother Crescencia for her unconditional support, trust, and love during all my life.

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