Are you looking to create stunning graphical user interfaces (GUIs) using Python? Look no further. This comprehensive guide will take you on a journey through the powerful capabilities of Tkinter, Python's standard GUI library.
This comprehensive guide explores the power of Python's Tkinter library. This book covers various classes of GUI widgets, including buttons, input fields, displays, containers, and item widgets. It teaches you how to create interactive and visually appealing user interfaces, handle file selection, gather widget information, and trace changes. Additionally, it includes a hands-on project on creating a user login system using Tkinter and sqlite3 database. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this book will empower you to build professional and intuitive GUI applications effortlessly.
By the end of the book, you will have gained knowledge and skills in creating modern user interfaces using the Tkinter Python library.
The purpose of this book is to introduce readers with little to no programming experience, to Python Graphical User Interface (GUI). A GUI application can be created in any programming language, say VB.Net, C#.Net etc. In this book, we shall see how to create a GUI application using Python Tkinter library. We will provide the readers with the foundational knowledge and skills which is required to start writing code for creating any desktop GUI app in Python language. By mastering Python Tkinter library, readers will be able to apply this technology to solve real-world problems and create various useful applications according to their needs.
The first part of the book covers basic GUI Tkinter concepts followed by a touch of inbuilt variable classes for creating different tkinter GUI widgets. Then we shall see some insights of different widgets viz button, input, display, container, item and user-interactive widgets. Finally, in the later part of the book, we shall explore handling file selection and getting widget along with trace information in Tkinter.
This book covers a wide range of topics, from basic definition of different widgets along with various solved examples and well explanatory code. Overall, the book provides a solid foundation for beginners to start their journey for getting trained in Python GUI using Tkinter library.
Author(s): Saurabh Chandrakar, Nilesh Bhaskarrao Bahadure
Publisher: BPB Publications
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 366
Book title
Inner title
Copyright
Dedicated
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgements
Preface
Code Bundle and Coloured Images
Piracy
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: tkinter Introduction
Introduction
Structure
Objectives
Introduction to tkinter
Basic Python GUI program
Some standard attributes of Python tkinter GUI
Dimensions
highlightthickness
padX, padY
wraplength
height
underline
width
Colors
activebackground
background
activeforeground
foreground
disabledforeground
highlightbackground
selectbackground
selectforeground
Fonts
By creating a font object
By using tuple
Anchors
Placing widget position when anchor = N
Placing widget position when anchor = S
Placing widget position when anchor = E
Placing widget position when anchor = W
Placing widget position when anchor = NE
Placing widget position when anchor = NW
Placing widget position when anchor = SE
Placing widget position when anchor = SW
Placing widget position when anchor = CENTER
Relief styles
Bitmaps
Cursors
Python tkinter geometry management
pack()
grid()
place()
Geometry method in tkinter
Conclusion
Points to remember
Questions
Chapter 2: Inbuilt Variable Classes for Python tkinter GUI Widgets
Introduction
Structure
Objectives
Inbuilt variable classes
StringVar()
BooleanVar()
IntVar()
DoubleVar()
GUI creation using classes and objects
Conclusion
Points to remember
Questions
Chapter 3: Getting Insights of Button Widgets in tkinter
Introduction
Structure
Objectives
tkinter Button Widget
Events and bindings
event type
tkinter Checkbutton widget
tkinter Radiobutton widget
tkinter OptionMenu widget
Conclusion
Points of remember
Questions
Chapter 4: Getting Insights of Input Widgets in tkinter
Introduction
Structure
Objectives
tkinter Entry widget
Validation in the Entry widget
tkinter Scrollbar widget
Scrollbar attached to Listbox
Scrollbar attached to Text
Scrollbar attached to Canvas
Scrollbar attached to Entry
tkinter Spinbox widget
tkinter Scale widget
tkinter Text widget
tkinter Combobox Widget
Conclusion
Points to remember
Questions
Chapter 5: Getting Insights of Display Widgets in tkinter
Introduction
Structure
Objectives
tkinter Label Widget
tkinter Message Widget
tkinter MessageBox Widget
showinfo()
showwarning()
showerror()
askquestion()
askokcancel()
askyesno()
askretrycancel()
Conclusion
Points of remember
Questions
Chapter 6: Getting Insights of
Container Widgets in tkinter
Introduction
Structure
Objectives
tkinter Frame Widget
tkinter LabelFrame Widget
tkinter Tabbed/Notebook Widget
tkinter PanedWindow widget
tkinter Toplevel widget
Conclusion
Points of remember
Questions
Chapter 7: Getting Insights of Item Widgets in tkinter
Introduction
Structure
Objectives
tkinter Listbox widget
Conclusion
Points of remember
Questions
Chapter 8: Getting Insights of tkinter User Interactive Widgets
Introduction
Structure
Objectives
tkinter Menu widget
tkinter Menubutton widget
tkinter Canvas widget
Conclusion
Points to remember
Questions
Chapter 9: Handling File Selection in tkinter
Introduction
Structure
Objectives
Handling file selection in tkinter
Conclusion
Points of remember
Questions
Chapter 10: Getting Widget Information and Trace in tkinter
Introduction
Structure
Getting widget information
Trace in tkinter
trace_add()
trace_remove()
trace_info()
Points to remember
Questions
Chapter 11: UserLogin Project in tkinter GUI Library with sqlite3 Database
Introduction
Structure
Objectives
GUI interaction with sqlite3 database
Displaying a GUI application
Conclusion
Points to remember
Questions
Index
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