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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

By : Bhaskar Chaudhary
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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

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, media player, drawing application, chat application, screen saver, port scanner, and many 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 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 (15 chapters)
Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

External library requirements


In addition to the several built-in modules of Python, we will use the following two external modules in this project:

  • The pyglet library for audio manipulation

  • PMW (short for Python Megawidget) for the widgets that are not available in core Tkinter

The pyglet module

Pyglet is a cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python. It can be downloaded at https://bitbucket.org/pyglet/pyglet/wiki/Download.

Pyglet can be installed using the PIP installer by using the following command:

pip3 install pyglet

Windows users can also download and install binary packages for pyglet from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyglet.

Pyglet needs another module called AVbin to support playback of file formats such as MP2 and MP3. AVbin can be obtained for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X from the download section at http://avbin.github.io.

PMW Tkinter extension

We will use the PMW Tkinter extension to code some widget features that are not available in core Tkinter.

Pmw...