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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming with Tkinter Develop responsive and powerful GUI applications with Tkinter

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835886
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alan D. Moore Alan D. Moore
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Preface 1. Introduction to Tkinter FREE CHAPTER 2. Designing GUI Applications with Tkinter 3. Creating Basic Forms with Tkinter and ttk Widgets 4. Reducing User Error with Validation and Automation 5. Planning for the Expansion of Our Application 6. Creating Menus with Menu and Tkinter Dialogs 7. Navigating Records with Treeview 8. Improving the Look with Styles and Themes 9. Maintaining Cross-Platform Compatibility 10. Creating Automated Tests with unittest 11. Improving Data Storage with SQL 12. Connecting to the Cloud 13. Asynchronous Programming with Thread and Queue 14. Visualizing Data Using the Canvas Widget 15. Packaging with setuptools and cx_Freeze 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Advanced graphs using Matplotlib and Tkinter

Our line graph is pretty, but it still needs considerable work to be fully functional: it lacks a scale, grid lines, and other features that would make it a completely useful chart.

We could spend a lot of time making it more complete, but there's a faster way to get much more satisfactory graphs and charts in our Tkinter application: Matplotlib.

Matplotlib is a third-party library for generating professional-quality, interactive graphs of all types. It's a vast library with many add-ons, and we won't cover much of its actual usage, but we should look at how to integrate Matplotlib into a Tkinter application. To do this, we'll create a bubble chart showing the yield of each plot as it relates to humidity and temperature.

You should be able to install matplotlib using pip with the command pip install --user matplotlib...
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