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

Maintaining Cross-Platform Compatibility

Word has spread throughout ABQ AgriLabs about your application, and it is being requested as a way to visualize and work on experimental data files. As a result, it now needs to run on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems equally well. Fortunately for you, Python and Tkinter are supported on these three operating systems, and you'll be pleasantly surprised to find that your application already runs unaltered on all three. However, there are some small issues that you need to address and remain aware of in order for your application to be a good citizen on each platform.

In this chapter, we'll learn more about cross-platform compatibility as we cover the following topics:

In Writing cross-platform Python, you'll learn how to keep basic Python code functional across multiple platforms.
In Writing cross-platform Tkinter, you'll learn about cross-platform issues that affect Tkinter code specifically.