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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition

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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

Alternatives to Tkinter

If a program can be written in Tkinter, this is probably the best way to go in terms of simplicity and maintainability. However, in case the aforementioned limitations get in your way, you can explore some other alternatives to Tkinter.

In addition to Tkinter, there are several other popular Python GUI toolkits. The most popular ones include wxPython, PyQt, PySide, and PyGTK. Here's a brief discussion of these toolkits.

wxPython

wxPython is a Python interface for wxWidgets, a popular open source GUI library. The code written in wxPython is portable across most major platforms, such as Windows, Linux, and macOS.

The wxPython interface is generally considered to be better than Tkinter at building complex GUIs, primarily because it has a large base of natively supported widgets. However, Tkinter supporters do contest this claim.

The wxWidgets interface was originally written in the C++ programming language. Hence, wxPython inherits a large portion of the complexity that is...

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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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