De Paz Alejandro Rodas. Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook: A practical solution to your GUI development problems with Python and Tkinter

Packt Publishing, 2018. — 403 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78862-230-1.Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook: Best solutions for Python GUI application development
Discover solutions to all your Tkinter and Python GUI development problemsAs one of the more versatile programming languages, Python is well-known for its batteries-included philosophy, which includes a rich set of modules in its standard library; Tkinter is the library included for building desktop applications. Due to this, Tkinter is a common choice for rapid GUI development, and more complex applications can benefit from the full capabilities of this library. This book covers all of your Tkinter and Python GUI development problems and solutions.Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook starts with an overview of Tkinter classes and at the same time provides recipes for basic topics, such as layout patterns and event handling. Next, we cover how to develop common GUI patterns, such as entering and saving data, navigating through menus and dialogs, and performing long-running actions in the background.You can then make your apps leverage network resources effectively and perform graphical operations on a canvas and related tasks such as detecting collisions between items. Finally, this book covers using themed widgets, an extension of Tk widgets that have a more native look and feel. Finally, this book covers using the canvas and themed widgets.By the end of the book, you will have an in-depth knowledge of Tkinter classes, and will know how to use them to build efficient and rich GUI applications.What You Will Learn
Add widgets and handle user events
Lay out widgets within windows using frames and the different geometry managers
Configure widgets so that they have a customized appearance and behavior
Improve the navigation of your apps with menus and dialogs
Apply object-oriented programming techniques in Tkinter applications
Use threads to achieve responsiveness and update the GUI
Explore the capabilities of the canvas widget and the types of items that can be added to it
Extend Tkinter applications with the TTK (themed Tkinter) module