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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

Graphing with Tkinter

Tkinter is not a graphing tool. However, should you need to draw graphs with Tkinter, you can use the Canvas widget to draw graphs.

In this iteration, we will draw the following graphs:

  • Pie chart (8.02_pie_chart.py)
  • Bar graph (8.03_bar_graph.py)
  • Scatter plot (8.04_scatter_plot.py)

The three graphs show up as follows:

Let's look at the pie chart first. You can easily create a pie chart in Tkinter using the Canvas widget's create_arc method.

The create_arc method has the following signature:

item_id = canvas.create_arc(x1, y1, x2, y2, option, ...)

Point (x1, y1) is the top-left corner and point (x2, y2) is the bottom-right corner of the rectangle into which the arc fits. If the bounding rectangle is a square, it makes a circle. The method also takes two arguments, named start and extent, which we will use to create the pie chart.

The start option...

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