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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, 2nd edition

You're reading from Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, 2nd edition Design and build functional and user-friendly GUI applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815925

Length 664 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Tkinter

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Alan D. Moore

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Tkinter

2. Designing GUI Applications FREE CHAPTER

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. A: A Quick Primer on reStructuredText

18. B: A Quick SQL Tutorial

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

20. Index

Appendices

Converting RST to other formats

If nothing else, following the reStructuredText syntax leads to a very readable and expressive plaintext file. However, the real power in using a standardized markup language is in converting it to other formats.

The docutils package, available in PyPI, comes with several command-line utilities for converting RST files. The more useful ones are listed here:

Command	Format	Format description
`rst2html`	Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)	Standard markup language for the web, useful for publishing to a website.
`rst2html5`	Hypertext Markup Language version 5 (HTML 5)	More...

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Authors (1)

D. Moore

D. Moore

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.

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