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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

Master GUI programming in Tkinter as you design, implement, and deliver 10 real-world applications

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|Dec 2015
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Master GUI programming in Tkinter as you design, implement,
and deliver ten real-world applications from start to finish

Key Features

  • Conceptualize and build state-of-art GUI applications with Tkinter
  • Tackle the complexity of just about any size GUI application with a structured and scalable approach
  • A project-based, practical guide to get hands-on into Tkinter GUI development

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

  • Get to know the basic concepts of GUI
  • programming, such as Tkinter top-level
  • widgets, geometry management, event
  • handling, using callbacks, custom styling,
  • and dialogs
  • Create apps that can be scaled in size or
  • complexity without breaking down the core
  • Write your own GUI framework for maximum
  • code reuse
  • Build apps using both procedural and OOP
  • styles, understanding the strengths and
  • limitations of both styles
  • Learn to structure and build large GUI
  • applications based on Model-View-Controller
  • (MVC) architecture
  • Build multithreaded and database-driven apps
  • Create apps that leverage resources from
  • the network
  • Learn basics of 2D and 3D animation in GUI
  • applications
  • Develop apps that can persist application
  • data with object serialization and tools such
  • as configparser

Who this book is for

Software developers, scientists, researchers, engineers, students, or programming hobbyists with basic familiarity in Python will find this book interesting and informative. People familiar with basic programming constructs in other programming language can also catch up with some brief reading on Python. No GUI programming experience is expected.

Table of Contents

  1. Meet Tkinter
  2. Making a Text Editor like Notepad
  3. Programmable Drum Machine
  4. Game of Chess
  5. Audio Player
  6. Drawing Application
  7. Multiple Fun Projects
  8. Tips and Tricks
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-509-9
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 340