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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)

Summary

Let's summarize the concepts we discussed in this chapter.

We built a screen saver and in the process saw how to implement animations on the Tkinter canvas. Next, we saw how to create Cartesian and polar plots on the canvas. We also saw how to embed matplotlib plots on a Tkinter window.

We then implemented a basic gravity simulation that showed how we could take a physical model and implement it using a Tkinter canvas. We got a glimpse into the implementation of Voronoi diagrams, which are being used to model and solve so many practical real-world problems.

We also build some nice visualizations such as the Mandelbrot set and Phyllotaxies.

Finally, we learned how to use a Tkinter canvas to draw and animate 3D graphics using transformation matrices.