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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

Overview of this book

Tkinter is a modular, cross-platform application development toolkit for Python. When developing GUI-rich applications, the most important choices are which programming language(s) and which GUI framework to use. Python and Tkinter prove to be a great combination. This book will get you familiar with Tkinter by having you create fun and interactive projects. These projects have varying degrees of complexity. We'll start with a simple project, where you'll learn the fundamentals of GUI programming and the basics of working with a Tkinter application. After getting the basics right, we'll move on to creating a project of slightly increased complexity, such as a highly customizable Python editor. In the next project, we'll crank up the complexity level to create an instant messaging app. Toward the end, we'll discuss various ways of packaging our applications so that they can be shared and installed on other machines without the user having to learn how to install and run Python programs.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Playing our game


To make and display a window for our game, we just need an instance of our GameScreen. Since this inherits from the Tk widget, we will also need to call its mainloop method to make it show.

We will do this within an if __name__ == "__main__" block to allow our classes from this file to be imported into another, in case someone wanted to write another card game using our Card and Deck classes, for example:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    gs = GameScreen()
    gs.mainloop()

Add the preceding code to the very bottom of your code file of this chapter and run the program. You should now have a fully working game of blackjack:

Our game of blackjack

Hopefully, you will agree that this is much more enjoyable than the command-line version. Feel free to have a play around with any of the constants, colors, or image files in order to make the game more personal to you.