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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, 2nd edition

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, 2nd edition Design and build functional and user-friendly GUI applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801815925
Length 664 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Alan D. Moore Alan D. Moore
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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

Organizing Our Code with Classes

Things are going great with your data entry form! Your boss and coworkers and excited to see the progress you've made and are already coming up with some ideas of what other features could be added. This makes you a little nervous, to be honest! While they see a professional-looking form, you know that the code underneath is getting bulky and repetitive. You've got some warts in there too, like a global variable and a very cluttered global namespace. Before you start adding more features, you'd like to get a handle on this code and start breaking it down into some manageable chunks. For this, you'll need to create classes.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • In A primer on Python classes, we'll review how to create Python classes and subclasses.
  • In Using classes with Tkinter, we'll discover ways to utilize classes effectively in Tkinter code.
  • In Rewriting our application using...
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