Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

You're reading from   Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints Master GUI programming in Tkinter as you design, implement, and deliver 10 real-world applications

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889738
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Bhaskar Chaudhary Bhaskar Chaudhary
Author Profile Icon Bhaskar Chaudhary
Bhaskar Chaudhary
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meet Tkinter FREE CHAPTER 2. Making a Text Editor 3. Programmable Drum Machine 4. A Game of Chess 5. Building an Audio Player 6. Paint Application 7. Multiple Fun Projects 8. Miscellaneous Tips Index

An overview of the chapter


Let's call our audio player Achtung Baby.

The audio player will be capable of playing audio files in AU, MP2, MP3, OGG/Vorbis, WAV, and WMA formats. It will have all the controls that you would expect of a small media player.

We will use cross-platform modules to write the code. This will ensure that the player can play audio files on the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms.

On completion, the audio player will look like this:

Perhaps the most important takeaway from this chapter is to learn how to create your own widgets in Tkinter.

The seek bar in the preceding screenshot is an example of a custom-made widget that was not natively available in Tkinter but was handcrafted for this particular use case.

After you learn how to create custom widgets, what you can then create will only be limited by what you can imagine.

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image