Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

Find out how to create visually stunning and feature-rich applications by empowering Python's built-in TKinter GUI toolkit

Key Features

• Explore TKinter's powerful features to easily design and customize your GUI application
• Leverage cross-platform development ability of TKinter which gives you the opportunity to release your product to wider audience
• Interact with various external modules like cloud storage, REST API, FTP servers etc and integrate them with your application

Book Description

Tkinter is a lightweight, portable and easy to use graphical toolkit available in the Python Standard Library. Due to its simplicity and availability, it is widely used to build GUIs in Python. This book teaches how to design and build a graphical user interface that is functional, appealing, and user-friendly using one of the most powerful language Python and TKinter.

Initially, you will be introduced with TKinter and then we will start developing application step-by-step down the coarse of the book. Moving on we will be focusing on this built-in GUI framework package that comes with standard Python distributions. You will learn how to create GUI form and widgets and arrange them using layout managers. As our GUIs keep expanding, using more and more widgets, we start to talk to networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance our GUI's functionality. You will leverage the advantage of the cross-platform functionality of TKinter and learn to do minor customizations to deploy it on other platforms. At the end you will be testing your application and making its executables to make deployment simpler.

By the end of this book, you will successfully learn high-end GUI applications, and will be capable of building many more powerful, cross platform applications.

What you will learn

• Implement the tools provided by TKinter to design beautiful looking GUI
• Discover cross-platform development by minor customizations in your existing application
• Visualize graphs in real time as data comes in using Tkinter's animation capabilities
• Use PostgreSQL authentication to ensure data security for your application
• Write unit tests to avoid regressions when updating code

Who This Book Is For

This book will appeal to developers and programmers who would like to build GUI-based applications. Knowledge of Python is necessary.

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 blog by the name- alandmoore, where he writes mainly on Python, Linux, free software, and his home studio recordings.

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.