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Modern Tkinter for Busy Python Developers: Quickly learn to create great looking user interfaces for Windows, Mac and Linux using Python's standard GUI toolkit Kindle Edition

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This book will quickly get you up to speed with building attractive and modern graphical user interfaces with Python and Tkinter, it's standard GUI toolkit.

Newer versions of Tkinter represent a quantum leap forward, leaving behind the often ugly and outdated Tkinter appearance you may be familiar with. But until now, it's been difficult to find out just how to take advantage of all those exciting enhancements.

Who this Book is for

This book is designed for developers building tools and applications in Tk. It's also concerned with fairly mainstream graphical user interfaces, with buttons, lists, checkboxes, richtext editing, 2D graphics and so on. So if you're either looking to hack on Tk's internal C code, or build the next great 3D immersive game interface, this is probably not the material for you.

This book also doesn't teach you the Python programming language (the book uses Python 3), so you should have a basic grasp on that already. Similarly, you should have a basic familiarity with desktop applications in general, and while you don't have to be a user interface designer, some appreciation of GUI design is always helpful.

Whether you are entirely new to Tkinter, or just need to bring your Tkinter knowledge up to date, this book will give you everything you need to start building modern, attractive Tkinter-based user interfaces that run on Windows, Mac and Linux.

What's In This Book

This book brings together Python-specific information from the multi-lingual TkDocs.com website, and supports further development of that site.

Topics covered include:

Installing Tkinter
Basic Tk Concepts (widgets, geometry management, event handling)
Basic Widgets (frame, label, button, checkbutton, radiobutton, entry, combobox)
Grid Geometry Manager
More Widgets (listbox, scrollbar, sizegrip, text, progressbar, scale, spinbox)
Menus (menubars, platform menus, contextual menus)
Windows and Dialogs
Organizing Complex Interfaces (separator, labelframe, panedwindow, notebook)
Fonts, Colors and Images
Canvas Widget
Text Widget
Tree Widget
Styles and Themes

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About the Author

Mark Roseman is an independent software developer, with formal training in human-computer interaction. A cross-platform developer, he has used Tk extensively for both open source and commercial projects since approximately 1992, and has made multiple contributions to both Tk's internal code and its documentation.

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File Size: 5956 KB
Print Length: 196 pages
Publication Date: January 25, 2012
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B0071QDNLO
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Minor confusion between Python versions but otherwise excellent.

ByJohn P. Reidon January 1, 2013

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This book gave me a clear picture of the latest best practices for writing GUIs (graphic user interfaces) for Python programs. I have worked in 27 different programming languages over the years, but for the last six years I have worked mostly in Python or occasionally in IronPython. Several major applications have been developed for private users. Though Tk module for GUIs was used for some of these, I had missed the major improvements that came with Tkinter 8.5 as part of Python 2.7. This book (read in the Kindle version on a tablet) brought me quickly up to speed. Long-time Python users should be warned: Half the Python world is still using Python 2.7.3 because many 3rd-party modules have not been updated to Python 3.x or because legacy software is being maintained. The other half of the Python world is using Python 3.x. The book is written with Python 3.3 in mind. The author explains (a little late) that the Tk module in 2.7 is imported as Tkinter (uppercase T) while it is tkinter (lowercase t) in 3.3. As far as I can find, it is not mentioned that the themed widgets ttk module in 2.7 is a separate module whereas in 3.3 it is sub-module of tkinter. Such minor confusions slow things a bit. But to repeat, it is a very good book. I am delighted with the new GUI tools.
John

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Everything in one place with no distractions - almost

ByDaveInBelizeon February 1, 2012

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Bought the book yesterday and haven't finished it but so far I'm enjoying it. I realize that much of this content it available at tkdocs.com, a site I have visited many times in the past, but this format is superior in terms of focusing on python (my interest) and greater thoroughness and references. I have spent countless hours searching the web for modern best practices and packages regarding tkinter on python. At last I have high hopes that this book will significantly curtail those searches. So far I've only run into one technical problem - looks like some ruby code got accidentally inserted in section 4.3 which could really be confusing to an early learner. I'll report back if I see more troubles. Thanks to Mr. Roseman.

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Handy Reference But Little More

ByAmazon Customeron October 2, 2015

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As others have noted, this book is a reprint of the Tkinter tutorial at http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/index.html. I don't regret buying it even though the same material is freely available on line... it sometimes helps to have access to an offline reference. And, if all you need is a primer on Tkinter and an overview of Tkinter widgets, then it is a helpful reference. But I was hoping for more when I made this purchase.

The book's description states "you should have a basic familiarity with desktop applications in general, and while you don't have to be a user interface designer, some appreciation of GUI design is always helpful." These two lines conceal a great deal of what's missing from this book. A brief overview of what a GUI application is (eg. Models, Views, Controllers) and how Tkinter fits into that context would have been helpful. The book's front cover claims you can "Quickly learn to create great looking user interfaces for Windows, Mac and Linux using Python's standard GUI toolkit" but, without the broader context, this book really does little more than allow you to create some example GUI's with the toolkit.

Unless you're already an accomplished GUI App designer, better publications are available for realizing the promise on this book's cover.

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Short useful explanations marred by errors and gaps

ByMatthew Martinon April 30, 2015

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First off, this is Kindle packaged content available elsewhere on the web for free and poorly edited at that, with PYTHONTODO marks all over the
place. So $10 is price about three time higher than it should be. I don't mind paying for otherwise freely available content if it means it is packaged better than the other freely available versions, but this isn't.

The book often explains the API in terms of tcl, but never explains the tcl syntax. Clearly this book expect you to already know Python, but it doesn't explain enough tcl, and it doesn't introduce the fact that you can run raw Tcl code in special method on any widget until mid-book.

The style chapter is a bit muddle and is deferred until the very end-- so mentally you have learned all the wrong ways to style a widget before you learn the right way.

Given the quality and quantity of Tkinter documentation, you will probably need to read this document anyhow, if only because it is one of the top three google results.

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Very nice updated introduction to Tkinter

ByPhillip A. Wilmarthon April 19, 2014

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Updated introductions to Python GUIs are few and far between. This book is a relatively quick read and covers the basics of Tkinter in an updated format. Tkinter is often overlooked since it has been around for so long. Most of the documentation feels very dated. There are few books covering Tkinter so this book and another recent book are very nice to have available. There were relatively few typos in the text or examples. The book is a bit thin on some points, but it all hangs together nicely. While the book is relatively short, I would think it is somewhere in between beginner and intermediate levels. I really enjoyed reading it and appreciate the author taking the time to write it. I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars because it glosses over some topics and does not present a more complete project as a central theme. Some important aspects of GUI programming are program structure and how widgets can communicate with each other. Those points are not really directly addressed, which the author is upfront about. I also think every book written can't be 5 stars. Come on folks. Reviews need some tough love or they are worthless.

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Everything about is perfect -- plain English explanations

ByM Bergeron November 20, 2014

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This book is incredible. This guy does it right, especially for those of us trying to really learn a language. In all of my many pages I've sorted through on not just Python(and the Tkinter gui) but VBnet and others, all I can say is I wish they all would have had the quality of this. Everything about is perfect -- plain English explanations, great coding examples -- very thorough and by the time you read a page you actually "get it". Another plus is the readability. The font and the "look" of the pages are very easy on the eyes. Now how about something on Python -- not just Tkinter.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

All meat, no parsley.

This book has one outstanding feature that all by itself lifts it above the competition--he doesn't drag in anything that is not needed to explain a given concept.Read more

Published 5 months ago by Brent Farwick

Very good introduction

Well written. Clear explanations and good examples.

Published 5 months ago by Peter Minchin

Useless

Tried the very first EASY example in pycharm and received numerous errors. If the first example in the book doesn't work it seems a waste of time to continue and a waste of money.Read more

Published 1 year ago by John Murray

Four Stars

good and clearly written

Published 1 year ago by F. Lafon

Excellent tutorial on creating cross-platform user interfaces in Python

The book covers a lot of ground.
The author clearly knows what he is talking about.
The content is available for free on tkdocs.com

Published 1 year ago by Tk

Five Stars

It's great

Published 1 year ago by Michael Lemp

Useful Reference

Well written, clear, concise reference. It's not a cookbook but does a good job explaining the updated TK module.Read more

Published 1 year ago by S. Misuta

The tkinter book I needed.

This was the tkinter book I've needed. I thought of the tkinter module for Python as an unfortunate relic, but this view mostly came from the lack of documentation.Read more

Published 1 year ago by Al Sweigart

Exact copy of information available online. Don't waste your money.

While I like this book and it has helped me get started with Tkinter development- don't buy this book. It is an exact replica of information posted on the TKDocs website.Read more

Published 1 year ago by W. Lathrop

but with good documentation kinter could be very useful

Disappointing, I was looking for more detail and examples. For example the book early on says the text widget is incredibly flexible and could even be used as a web browser, but...Read more

Published on December 7, 2014 by Paul D. Hartley

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