What this book covers

Chapter 1, Meet Tkinter, begins from scratch, providing an overview of Tkinter and covering details of how to create root windows, add widgets to a root window, handle layout with geometry managers, and work with events.

Chapter 2, Make a Text Editor, develops a text editor in the procedural style of programming. It gives readers their first taste of several features of Tkinter and what it is like to develop a real application.

Chapter 3, Programmable Drum Machine, uses object-oriented programming to develop a drum machine that is capable of playing user-composed rhythms. The application can also save compositions and later edit or replay them. Here, you will learn the techniques of designing a GUI application using a model-first philosophy and how to write multithreaded GUI applications.

Chapter 4, A Game of Chess, introduces key aspects of structuring a GUI application using the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. It also teaches the art of taking a real-world object (chess) and modeling it in the notations that your program can manipulate. It also introduces readers to the power of the Tkinter Canvas widget.

Chapter 5, Building an Audio Player, introduces the concepts of working with external libraries while showing you how to work with many different Tkinter widgets. Most importantly, it shows how to make your own Tkinter widgets, thereby extending the capabilities of the Tkinter manifold.

Chapter 6, Paint Application, looks at the Tkinter Canvas widget in detail. As you will see, the Canvas widget is truly a highlight of Tkinter. The chapter also introduces the concept of the GUI framework, thereby creating reusable code for all your future programs.

Chapter 7, Multiple Fun Projects, works through a series of small but functional projects, demonstrating problems from different domains such as animation, network programming, socket programming, database programming, making graphs, and multithreaded programming.

Chapter 8, Miscellaneous Tips, discusses some vital aspects of GUI programming that, though not covered in the previous chapters, form a common theme in many GUI programs.