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Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook

By : Alejandro Rodas de Paz
Book Image

Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook

By: Alejandro Rodas de Paz

Overview of this book

As one of the more versatile programming languages, Python is well-known for its batteries-included philosophy, which includes a rich set of modules in its standard library; Tkinter is the library included for building desktop applications. Due to this, Tkinter is a common choice for rapid GUI development, and more complex applications can benefit from the full capabilities of this library. This book covers all of your Tkinter and Python GUI development problems and solutions. Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook starts with an overview of Tkinter classes and at the same time provides recipes for basic topics, such as layout patterns and event handling. Next, we cover how to develop common GUI patterns, such as entering and saving data, navigating through menus and dialogs, and performing long-running actions in the background.You can then make your apps leverage network resources effectively and perform graphical operations on a canvas and related tasks such as detecting collisions between items. Finally, this book covers using themed widgets, an extension of Tk widgets that have a more native look and feel. Finally, this book covers using the canvas and themed widgets. By the end of the book, you will have an in-depth knowledge of Tkinter classes, and will know how to use them to build efficient and rich GUI applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Replacing basic widget classes

As a first approach to themed Tkinter classes, we will take a look at how to use the same widgets (Buttons, Labels, Entries, and so on) from this different module, keeping the same behavior in our application.

Although this will not give us the full potential of their styling capabilities, we can easily appreciate the visual variations that bring the native look and feel of themed widgets.

Getting ready

In the following screenshot, you can note the differences between a GUI with themed widgets and the same window using standard Tkinter widgets:

We will build the application shown in the first window, but we will also learn how to easily switch between both styles.

Note that this is highly platform...