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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

You're reading from Tkinter GUI Programming by Example Learn to create modern GUIs using Tkinter by building real-world projects in Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788627481

Length 340 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Tkinter

Concepts

GUI Application Development

Author (1):

David Love

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Preface

1. Meet Tkinter FREE CHAPTER

2. Back to the Command Line – Basic Blackjack

3. Jack is Back in Style – the Blackjack GUI

4. The Finishing Touches – Sound and Animation

5. Creating a Highly Customizable Python Editor

6. Color Me Impressed! – Adding Syntax Highlighting

7. Not Just for Restaurants – All About Menus

8. Talk Python to Me – a Chat Application

9. Connecting – Getting Our Chat Client Online

10. Making Friends – Finishing Our Chat Application

11. Wrapping Up – Packaging Our Applications to Share

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Index

Chapter 8. Talk Python to Me – a Chat Application

The next project we will undertake is an online instant messaging application. This will allow us to manage a list of friends who we can chat to. When chatting, a user will have access to a list of smileys to add character to their messages.

In this chapter, we will cover:

Creating a scrollable Frame
Using the grid geometry manager
Positioning a Toplevel window relative to its parent
Embedding images into a Text widget

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Authors (1)

David Love

David Love

David Love is a web developer from Kent, England. He has worked on a multitude of different systems over his career. Programming languages in his arsenal include Python, PHP, and JavaScript. He is well-trained in Linux server management and its relevant technologies, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, NGINX, and supervisor. David has written an e-book called Tkinter By Example, which is available for free under a Creative Commons licenses and maintains an ever-growing blog post named The Tkinter Cookbook, full of small examples on how to perform some specific tasks.

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