Tkinter GUI application development hotshot : develop exciting and engaging GUI applications in Python and Tkinter by working on 10 real-world applications /: develop exciting and engaging GUI applications in Python and Tkinter by working on 10 real-world applications. (©2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bhaskar Chaudhary.
• Other Names: Chaudhary, Bhaskar
• Contents: Preface -- Project 1. Meet Tkinter. Mission briefing ; The root window : your drawing board ; Widgets : building blocks for your GUI program ; Getting to know core Tkinter widgets ; Geometry management ; Events and callbacks : adding life to programs ; Doing it in style ; Mission accomplished ; A hotshot challenge -- Project 2. Making a text editor like Notepad. Mission briefing ; Setting up the widgets ; Leveraging the power of built-in Text widget options ; Indexing and tagging ; Working with forms and dialogs ; Working with message boxes ; The icon toolbar and View menu functions ; Event handling and context menu ; Mission accomplished ; A hotshot challenge -- Project 3. Programmable drum machine. Mission briefing ; Setting up the GUI in OOP ; Completing the pattern editor ; Loading drum samples ; Playing the drum machine ; Tkinter and threading ; More beat patterns ; Object persistence ; ttk-themed widgets ; Mission accomplished ; A hotshot challenge -- Project 4. Game of chess. Mission briefing ; Structuring our program ; Structuring chessboard and pieces related data ; Adding pieces on the board ; Enforcing rules for pieces movement ; The chessboard logic ; Making the chess functional ; Adding menu and info frame ; Mission accomplished ; A hotshot challenge -- Project 5. Audio player. Mission briefing ; Getting the audio to play ; Adding a playlist ; Adding more controls to the player ; Adding the top display console ; Looping over tracks ; Adding contextual menu ; Adding tooltip and finalizing our player ; Mission accomplished ; A hotshot challenge -- Project 6. Drawing application. Mission briefing ; Developing a bare bone GUI framework ; Structuring our drawing program ; Handling mouse events ; Drawing items on the canvas ; Setting the options toolbar at top ; Adding some more features ; Mission accomplished ; A hotshot challenge -- Project 7. Some fun project ideas. Mission briefing ; Building a screen saver ; Building a Snake game ; Creating a Weather Reporter ; Creating a phonebook application ; Graphing with Tkinter ; Mission accomplished ; A hotshot challenge -- Appendix A. Miscellaneous tips. Mission briefing ; Tracing Tkinter variables ; Widget traversal ; Validating user input ; Formatting widget data ; More on fonts ; Working with Unicode characters ; Tkinter class hierarchy ; Custom-made Mixins ; Tips for code cleanup and program optimization ; Distributing Tkinter application ; Limitations of Tkinter ; Tkinter alternatives ; Getting interactive help ; Tkinter in Python 3.x ; Conclusion -- Appendix B. Quick reference sheets. Options common to widgets ; Widget-specific options ; The pack manager ; The grid manager ; The place manager ; The event types ; The event modifiers ; The event details ; Other event related methods ; List of available cursor ; The basic widget methods ; ttk widgets ; The Toplevel Window methods -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (362 pages)
• Subjects: 005.1; COMPUTERS -- Interactive & Multimedia; Python (Computer program language); Application software -- Development; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- Python; COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Software Development & Engineering; Application software -- Development; Python (Computer program language); COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Games; COMPUTERS -- User Interfaces; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781461949350; 1461949351; 9781849697958; 1849697957; 9781849697941; 1849697949
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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