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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition

You're reading from   Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition Build nine projects by working with widgets, geometry management, event handling, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837460
Length 422 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Bhaskar Chaudhary Bhaskar Chaudhary
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meet Tkinter FREE CHAPTER 2. Making a Text Editor 3. Programmable Drum Machine 4. Game of Chess 5. Building an Audio Player 6. Paint Application 7. Piano Tutor 8. Fun with Canvas 9. Multiple Fun Projects 10. Miscellaneous Tips 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating the Player class

Now, let's write the code for the Player class. This class will be responsible for the handling of audio playback and its related functions, such as pause, stop, seek, fast forward, rewind, change of volume, mute, and so on.

We will use the pyglet library to handle these functions.

Pyglet is a cross-platform library that uses the AVbin module to support a large variety of audio files.

You might want to look at the API documentation of the pyglet player, which is available at https://bitbucket.org/pyglet/pyglet/wiki/Home.

You can also access the documentation for the pyglet media player class by typing the following two lines in the Python interactive shell:

>>> import pyglet
>>> help(pyglet.media)

The online documentation at https://pyglet.readthedocs.org/ tells us that we can play an audio file by using the following code:

 player...
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