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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

Chapter objectives


The key objectives for this chapter are:

  • To learn to animate with the Tkinter canvas

  • To learn to use Queue implementation to avoid a race condition

  • To fetch data over the network and use it in our GUI programs

  • To learn about data interchange formats like JSON and XML

  • To learn database programming and basic CRUD operations on a database

  • To learn socket programming to effectively communicate over the network

  • To learn the basics of server-client architecture

  • To learn the basics of 3D drawing with Tkinter

  • To learn about various 3D transformations

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