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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)

QA section

Here are a few questions to reflect upon:

  • What's the difference between the Checkbutton menu item and the Radio button menu item?
  • What's the Cascade menu button used for?
  • Identify different kinds of Toplevel window.
  • List the different types of filedialogs and message boxes available in Tkinter.
  • We used the pack geometry manager to build this text editor. Could we have built this using the grid geometry manager? How would the grid geometry manager fare against pack?
  • How can we trigger events without an external stimulus in Tkinter?
  • What are accelerator options in menu items?
  • What is a transient window?