Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT -- Table of Contents -- Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Meet Tkinter -- Mission Briefing -- Why Is It Awesome? -- Your Hotshot Objectives -- Mission Checklist -- The root window - your drawing board -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Classified Intel -- The big picture -- Widgets - building blocks for your GUI program -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Classified Intel -- Getting to know core Tkinter widgets -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Classified Intel -- Geometry management -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- The pack geometry manager -- The grid geometry manager -- The place geometry manager -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Events and callbacks - adding life to programs -- Engage Thrusters -- Command binding -- Passing arguments to the callback -- Event binding -- Event pattern -- Levels of binding -- Handling widget-specific variables -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Classified Intel -- Doing it in style -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Mission Accomplished -- A Hotshot Challenge -- 2. Making a Text Editor like Notepad -- Mission Briefing -- Why Is It Awesome? -- Your Hotshot Objectives -- Setting up the widgets -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing.

Leveraging the power of built-in Text widget options -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Briefing -- Indexing and tagging -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Index -- Tags -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Briefing -- Classified Intel -- Working with forms and dialogs -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Briefing -- Working with message boxes -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Briefing -- The icon toolbar and View menu functions -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Briefing -- Event handling and the context menu -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Briefing -- Mission Accomplished -- A Hotshot Challenge -- 3. Programmable Drum Machine -- Mission Briefing -- Why Is It Awesome? -- Your Hotshot Objectives -- Mission Checklist -- Setting up the GUI in OOP -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Completing the pattern editor -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Loading drum samples -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Playing the drum machine -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Classified Intel -- Tkinter and threading -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- More beat patterns -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Object persistence -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- ttk-themed widgets -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Mission Accomplished -- A Hotshot Challenge -- 4. Game of Chess -- Mission Briefing -- Why Is It Awesome? -- Your Hotshot Objectives -- Mission Checklist -- Structuring our program -- Prepare for Lift Off.

Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - creating the GUI class -- Step 2 - creating the chessboard -- Step 3 - creating Tkinter mainloop -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Classified Intel -- Structuring chessboard-and-pieces-related data -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - creating a Piece superclass -- Step 2 - creating individual child classes for all pieces -- Step 3 - defining a method to return the piece instance -- Step 4 - creating the Board class -- Step 5 - displaying pieces on board for a given FEN notation -- Step 6 - checking if a given coordinate is on the board -- Step 7 - generating alphabetic and numeric notation -- Step 8 - checking places occupied on the board -- Step 9 - handling errors and exceptions -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Adding pieces on the board -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - importing PIL -- Step 2 - defining method to draw pieces on chessboard -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Enforcing rules for pieces' movement -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - tracking moves available for all pieces from Pieces superclass -- Step 2 - rules for the king, queen, rook and bishop class -- Step 3 - rules for knight -- Step 4 - rules for pawn -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- The chessboard logic -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1: Tracking all Available Moves -- Step 2: Getting Current Position of King -- Step 3: Verifying if King is under Check -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Making the chess functional -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - updating the board for change in FEN notation -- Step 2 - binding mouse click event -- Step 3 - adding attribute to track selected piece and remaining pieces -- Step 4 - identifying square clicked -- Step 5 - getting the source and destination position -- Step 6 - collecting list of moves to highlight.

Step 7 - modifying draw_board to highlight allowed moves -- Step 8 - defining attributes to keep game statistics -- Step 9 - preshift validations -- Step 10 - actual movement of pieces -- Step 11 - Post movement updates -- Step 12 - classes to handle exceptions and errors -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Adding menu and an info frame -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - creating top menu -- Step 2 - adding the bottom frame to display game statistics -- Step 3 - starting a new game from File

Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Classified Intel -- Adding the top display console -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - creating the top console and progress bar -- Step 2 - getting the total duration of a track -- Step 3 - updating console at launch of play -- Step 4 - updating timer clock and progress bar at regular intervals -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Looping over tracks -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - creating the radio buttons -- Step 2 - on end of song callback -- Step 3 - what next? -- Step 4 - fetching the next track -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Adding the contextual menu -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - creating the contextual menu -- Step 2: overriding the close button -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Adding a tooltip and finalizing our player -- Prepare for Lift Off -- PMW list of extensions -- Widgets -- Dialogs -- Miscellaneous -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - importing PMW -- Step 2 - instantiating the Balloon widget -- Step 3 - adding Balloon tooltips to all buttons in our player -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Mission Accomplished -- A Hotshot Challenge -- 6. Drawing an Application -- Mission Briefing -- Why Is It Awesome? -- Your Hotshot Objectives -- Mission Checklist -- Developing a bare bone GUI framework -- Prepare for Lift Off -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - creating the GUI framework class -- Step 2 - creating menu builder -- Step 3 - testing our new framework -- Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing -- Classified Intel -- Structuring our drawing program -- Engage Thrusters -- Step 1 - importing framework -- Step 2: building the top menu -- Step 3 - undo operation on the Canvas widget -- Step 4 - saving canvas objects -- Step 5 - creating buttons in the left tool bar -- Step 6 - adding command callback to buttons.

Step 7 - creating color palettes and color selection dialog.