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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889738
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bhaskar Chaudhary Bhaskar Chaudhary
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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

The limitations of Tkinter

We have already explored the power of Tkinter. Perhaps the greatest power of Tkinter lies in its ease of use and a lightweight footprint. Tkinter exposes a very powerful API, specially with the Text widget and the Canvas widget.

However, ease of use and the quality of being lightweight that are offered by Tkinter also result in some limitations.

A limited number of core widgets

Tkinter provides only a small number of basic widgets and lacks a collection of modern widgets. It needs Ttk, PMW, TIX, and other extensions to provide some really useful widgets. Even with these extensions, Tkinter fails to match the range of widgets provided by other GUI tools, such as the advanced wxPython widget set and PyQt.

For instance, wxPython's HtmlWindow widget lets users display HTML content with ease. There have been attempts to provide similar extensions in Tkinter, but they are far from satisfactory. Similarly, there are other widgets from the Advanced User Interface Library...

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