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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example: Learn to create modern GUIs using Tkinter by building real-world projects in Python

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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

Back to the Command Line – Basic Blackjack

Blackjack is a casino game involving just a deck of cards. The aim of the game is to get as close as possible to a hand worth 21 points – but go over and you're out!

Number cards are worth their face value, picture cards are worth 10, and an ace is worth either 1 or 11 depending on your other cards. Players are initially dealt two cards and can either choose to hit (receive another card) or stick (submit their current hand).

Players face off against the dealer, who has one card face down and one face up. When all players have chosen to stick or are out (having a hand over 21), the winner is the one with a hand closest to 21.

Why am I telling you about blackjack? Because we're going to make a blackjack game using Tkinter! Not only will this chapter introduce you to powerful widgets, such as the canvas and Frame...

Python's class system

A class can be thought of as a way of assigning a name to a set of specific functions and variables that are all associated with a common piece of an application.

The code for a class differs in two main ways from regular Python code.

Firstly, you will see the class keyword before the name of the class, followed by a colon and an indented scope. This is the syntax for telling Python that everything within this scope belongs to the class.

Secondly, all functions defined will have self as their first argument (unless they are static or class methods). This is automatically passed in via Python itself and so will cause calls to the function to appear to need one fewer argument than the definition.

The purpose of the self argument is to give each function (which, when in the scope of a class, is known as a method instead) access to the instance's other...

Blackjack's classes

We will begin by defining the classes which will be used in order to separate out different aspects of the game of blackjack. We will model three of the components of the game:

  • Card: A basic playing card. The card belongs to a suit and is worth a certain value.
  • Deck: A collection of cards. The deck shrinks as cards are drawn and contains 52 unique cards.
  • Hand: Each player's assigned cards. A hand is what defines each player's score and thus who wins.

Let's begin with the simplest concept—the Card.

The Card class

The Card class will be the first class we define, as both of our other classes will need to use it. Open up a new file and type the following code:

import random

class...

The Game class and main loop

We will define the game's main loop within the class __init__ method so that to begin playing, we simply need to create an instance of this class:

class Game:
    def __init__(self):
        playing = True

        while playing:
            self.deck = Deck()
            self.deck.shuffle()

            self.player_hand = Hand()
            self.dealer_hand = Hand(dealer=True)

            for i in range(2):
                self.player_hand.add_card(self.deck.deal())
                self.dealer_hand.add_card(self.deck.deal())

            print("Your hand is:")
            self.player_hand.display()
            print()
            print("Dealer's hand is:")
            self.dealer_hand.display()

We start off our loop with a Boolean which will be used to track whether or not we are still playing the game.

If we are, we need a shuffled...

Command line versus GUI

Since we now have a working game, what is the motivation to continue with this project? Isn't the command-line interface good enough for a lot of games?

Let's briefly compare the suitability of command-line interfaces versus graphical interfaces for Python programs.

Interactivity

When creating a program which runs on the command line, there are essentially only two ways to get input from the user.

The first is by parsing command-line arguments. These are the extra information written on the same line when running an executable from the command line. For example: python3 -i blackjack.py. Here, we  have passed in a flag of -i telling the interpreter to end in interactive mode, and the filename...

Summary

In this chapter, we have gone over how to create and use classes in Python. We have seen that they allow for code reuse by defining methods, but these methods can have different outcomes depending on which attributes the particular instance of a class holds.

We have briefly looked at the concept of polymorphism and how easy it is to do using Python's dynamic typing.

Our basic command-line version of the blackjack game has been written and is fully playable. We are now prepared to take this up to the next level in the following chapter by utilizing some new Tkinter widgets.

The choice of interface options has been discussed so that we now know why learning a graphical framework such as Tkinter is a good idea to allow for familiarity and ease of use for our applications. This serves as our motivation for the next step with our game, so that we may make it interesting...

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  • The fundamentals of Python and GUI programming with Tkinter.
  • Create multiple cross-platform projects by integrating a host of third-party libraries and tools.
  • Build beautiful and highly-interactive user interfaces that target multiple devices.

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Tkinter is a modular, cross-platform application development toolkit for Python. When developing GUI-rich applications, the most important choices are which programming language(s) and which GUI framework to use. Python and Tkinter prove to be a great combination. This book will get you familiar with Tkinter by having you create fun and interactive projects. These projects have varying degrees of complexity. We'll start with a simple project, where you'll learn the fundamentals of GUI programming and the basics of working with a Tkinter application. After getting the basics right, we'll move on to creating a project of slightly increased complexity, such as a highly customizable Python editor. In the next project, we'll crank up the complexity level to create an instant messaging app. Toward the end, we'll discuss various ways of packaging our applications so that they can be shared and installed on other machines without the user having to learn how to install and run Python programs.

Who is this book for?

This book is for beginners to GUI programming who haven’t used Tkinter yet and are eager to start building great-looking and user-friendly GUIs. Prior knowledge of Python programming is expected.

What you will learn

  • Create a scrollable frame via theCanvas widget
  • Use the pack geometry manager andFrame widget to control layout
  • Learn to choose a data structurefor a game
  • Group Tkinter widgets, such asbuttons, canvases, and labels
  • Create a highly customizablePython editor
  • Design and lay out a chat window
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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
Meet Tkinter Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Meet Tkinter
Installation
How will the code be structured?
Getting going
Adding interactivity
Using variables
Showing messages
Getting text input
Summary
Back to the Command Line – Basic Blackjack Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Back to the Command Line – Basic Blackjack
Python's class system
Blackjack's classes
The Game class and main loop
Command line versus GUI
Summary
Jack is Back in Style – the Blackjack GUI Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Jack is Back in Style – the Blackjack GUI
Moving from the command line to a graphical interface
The Canvas widget
Creating a graphical blackjack game
Playing our game
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The Finishing Touches – Sound and Animation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Finishing Touches – Sound and Animation
Python's module system
The blackjack packages
The blackjack.py file
Summary
Creating a Highly Customizable Python Editor Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating a Highly Customizable Python Editor
The ttk submodule
Beginning our text editor
Tkinter's event system
Events in our text editor
A second top-level window
Summary
Color Me Impressed! – Adding Syntax Highlighting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Color Me Impressed! – Adding Syntax Highlighting
Tkinter's indexing system
Using tags
Searching text
Adding syntax highlighting to our text editor
Summary
Not Just for Restaurants – All About Menus Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Not Just for Restaurants – All About Menus
The Menu widget
Adding a menu bar to our text editor
Adding a context menu to our text editor
Handling files
Changing the syntax highlighting
Changing the editor's font
Changing the editor's color scheme
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Talk Python to Me – a Chat Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Talk Python to Me – a Chat Application
Creating a scrollable frame
Creating our FriendsList class
Creating our ChatWindow class
Creating our SmilieSelect class
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Connecting – Getting Our Chat Client Online Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Connecting – Getting Our Chat Client Online
Introduction to flask
The requests module
The sqlite3 module
Linking flask and sqlite
Updating our FriendsList class
Creating the Requester class
Connecting our FriendsList to our web service
Connecting our ChatWindow
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Making Friends – Finishing Our Chat Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Making Friends – Finishing Our Chat Application
Using threads
Adding a Thread to our ChatWindow
Allowing users to upload avatars
Adding and blocking other users
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Wrapping Up – Packaging Our Applications to Share Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Wrapping Up – Packaging Our Applications to Share
Unexplored widgets
Packaging applications
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Currently, no tax is charged on the purchase of any print book (subject to change based on the laws and regulations). A localized VAT fee is charged only to our European and UK customers on eBooks, Video and subscriptions that they buy. GST is charged to Indian customers for eBooks and video purchases.

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You can pay with the following card types:

  1. Visa Debit
  2. Visa Credit
  3. MasterCard
  4. PayPal
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Shipping Details

USA:

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Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the US within 10-15 business days

Premium: Trackable Delivery to most addresses in the US within 3-8 business days

UK:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 7-9 business days.
Shipments are not trackable

Premium: Trackable delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 3-4 business days!
Add one extra business day for deliveries to Northern Ireland and Scottish Highlands and islands

EU:

Premium: Trackable delivery to most EU destinations within 4-9 business days.

Australia:

Economy: Can deliver to P. O. Boxes and private residences.
Trackable service with delivery to addresses in Australia only.
Delivery time ranges from 7-9 business days for VIC and 8-10 business days for Interstate metro
Delivery time is up to 15 business days for remote areas of WA, NT & QLD.

Premium: Delivery to addresses in Australia only
Trackable delivery to most P. O. Boxes and private residences in Australia within 4-5 days based on the distance to a destination following dispatch.

India:

Premium: Delivery to most Indian addresses within 5-6 business days

Rest of the World:

Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

Asia:

Premium: Delivery to most Asian addresses within 5-9 business days

Disclaimer:
All orders received before 5 PM U.K time would start printing from the next business day. So the estimated delivery times start from the next day as well. Orders received after 5 PM U.K time (in our internal systems) on a business day or anytime on the weekend will begin printing the second to next business day. For example, an order placed at 11 AM today will begin printing tomorrow, whereas an order placed at 9 PM tonight will begin printing the day after tomorrow.


Unfortunately, due to several restrictions, we are unable to ship to the following countries:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. American Samoa
  3. Belarus
  4. Brunei Darussalam
  5. Central African Republic
  6. The Democratic Republic of Congo
  7. Eritrea
  8. Guinea-bissau
  9. Iran
  10. Lebanon
  11. Libiya Arab Jamahriya
  12. Somalia
  13. Sudan
  14. Russian Federation
  15. Syrian Arab Republic
  16. Ukraine
  17. Venezuela