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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

You're reading from   Tkinter GUI Programming by Example Learn to create modern GUIs using Tkinter by building real-world projects in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627481
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Love David Love
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meet Tkinter 2. Back to the Command Line – Basic Blackjack FREE CHAPTER 3. Jack is Back in Style – the Blackjack GUI 4. The Finishing Touches – Sound and Animation 5. Creating a Highly Customizable Python Editor 6. Color Me Impressed! – Adding Syntax Highlighting 7. Not Just for Restaurants – All About Menus 8. Talk Python to Me – a Chat Application 9. Connecting – Getting Our Chat Client Online 10. Making Friends – Finishing Our Chat Application 11. Wrapping Up – Packaging Our Applications to Share 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Connecting our ChatWindow


The first thing to do with our ChatWindow is allow it to receive the username variable:

class ChatWindow(tk.Toplevel):
    def __init__(self, master, friend_name, friend_username, friend_avatar, **kwargs):
        ...
        self.friend_username = friend_username

You may be wondering why we need this variable here. The reason we will be requiring it is to help keep track of the conversation history.

There will be a separate database holding conversations between you and each individual friend, to make for very easy retrieval of the conversation history. This will, of course, require changes to our web service and, of course, our Requester will need to be updated too.

Let's begin with the necessary server adjustments to facilitate the conversation databases.

Updating our server to store conversations

As mentioned, each conversation will be contained to its own SQLite database. For easy organization, go ahead and create a folder named conversations inside your server folder...

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