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

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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. Review: Exactly what I needed to jump up the GUI learning curve! - I have been trying to self-learn Python and how to make a reasonable GUI, but was struggling with too many new things to learn just to get started. This book was perfect! The first chapter very efficiently walks the reader through all the essential features and widgets to create GUI's for almost any imaginable task. Later chapters focus on detailed applications of what was given in summary form in chapter 1. I would recommend the free download of all the example code as it is tedious to type all the examples covered without a typo here or there resulting in debugging. Review: Generally a good book covering interesting aspects of tkinter - Generally a good book covering interesting aspects of tkinter. Most of the programs are for demonstration purposes only and if you play with them for awhile you'll find many bugs. For example, in the text editor (chapter) you'll find at least the following: 1) The scroll bar covers up the last couple characters of the text box. 2) The line numbers do not handle the wrap='word' condition correctly. This one seems hard to fix but it would be worth the author's time to mention it. 3) The status line leaves a ghost if you scroll. 4) If you read in a file larger than the window the line numbers again do not work properly.