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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition

You're reading from Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition Build nine projects by working with widgets, geometry management, event handling, and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788837460

Length 422 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Tkinter

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Chaudhary

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Meet Tkinter

2. Making a Text Editor FREE CHAPTER

3. Programmable Drum Machine

4. Game of Chess

5. Building an Audio Player

6. Paint Application

7. Piano Tutor

8. Fun with Canvas

9. Multiple Fun Projects

10. Miscellaneous Tips

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

QA section

Here are a few questions to reflect upon:

What's the difference between the Checkbutton menu item and the Radio button menu item?
What's the Cascade menu button used for?
Identify different kinds of Toplevel window.
List the different types of filedialogs and message boxes available in Tkinter.
We used the pack geometry manager to build this text editor. Could we have built this using the grid geometry manager? How would the grid geometry manager fare against pack?
How can we trigger events without an external stimulus in Tkinter?
What are accelerator options in menu items?
What is a transient window?

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Authors (1)

Chaudhary

Chaudhary

Bhaskar Chaudhary is a professional programmer and information architect. He has a decade of experience in consulting, contracting, and educating in the field of software development. He has worked with a large set of programming languages on various platforms over the years. He is an electronics hobbyist and a musician in his free time.

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