Python GUI Programming with Tkinter: Design and build functional and user-friendly GUI applications

by Alan D. Moore

Overview

Tkinter is widely used to build GUIs in Python due to its simplicity. In this book, you’ll discover Tkinter’s strengths and overcome its challenges as you learn to develop fully featured GUI applications.

Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, Second Edition, will not only provide you with a working knowledge of the Tkinter GUI library, but also a valuable set of skills that will enable you to plan, implement, and maintain larger applications. You’ll build a full-blown data entry application from scratch, learning how to grow and improve your code in response to continually changing user and business needs.

You’ll develop a practical understanding of tools and techniques used to manage this evolving codebase and go beyond the default Tkinter widget capabilities. You’ll implement version control and unit testing, separation of concerns through the MVC design pattern, and object-oriented programming to organize your code more cleanly.

You’ll also gain experience with technologies often used in workplace applications, such as SQL databases, network services, and data visualization libraries. Finally, you’ll package your application for wider distribution and tackle the challenge of maintaining cross-platform compatibility.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801818865
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	10/28/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	664
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Alan D. Moore is a data analyst and software developer who has been solving problems with Python since 2006. He's developed both open source and private code using frameworks like Django, Flask, Qt, and of course Tkinter, and is known to contribute to various open-source Python and JavaScript projects.
Alan maintains a YouTube channel, “Alan D Moore Codes”, where he posts Python, PyQt, and Tkinter tutorials.
Alan lives in Franklin, Tennessee, where he works for the County Government, and with his wife Cara raises a crew of children who are just as geeky as their dad.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Tkinter
2. Designing GUI Applications
3. Creating Basic Forms with Tkinter and Ttk Widgets
4. Organizing Our Code with Classes
5. Reducing User Error with Validation and Automation
6. Planning for the Expansion of Our Application
7. Creating Menus with Menu and Tkinter Dialogs
8. Navigating Records with Treeview and Notebook
9. Improving the Look with Styles and Themes
10. Maintaining Cross-Platform Compatibility
11. Creating Automated Tests with unittest
12. Improving Data Storage with SQL
13. Connecting to the Cloud
14. Asynchronous Programming with Thread and Queue
15. Visualizing Data Using the Canvas Widget
16. Packaging with setuptools and cxFreeze
17. Appendix A : A Quick Primer on reStructuredText
18. Appendix B: A Quick SQL Tutorial