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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

Connecting our FriendsList to our web service


To get our FriendsList talking to our web service, we first need an instance of our new Requester. We will also import messagebox, so that we can show some pop-up windows if there are any errors:

import tkinter.messagebox as msg
from requester import Requester
...
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        ...
        self.requester = Requester()
        ...

With this in place, we can write the actual login and create_account methods:

def login(self):
    username = self.username_entry.get()
    real_name = self.real_name_entry.get()

    if self.requester.login(username, real_name):
        self.username = username
        self.real_name = real_name

        self.show_friends()
    else:
        msg.showerror("Failed", f"Could not log in as {username}")

To log in, we first use the get method to retrieve the text inside our two Entry widgets, then pass them to the login method of our requester.

If the call to the web service is successful, we set the...