Python GUI Development with Tkinter

Course details

Put an end to writing command-line interfaces for your programs. Use Tkinter, the Python package for creating themed interface elements with the Tk GUI toolkit. Join Barron Stone in this course as he walks through the most popular Tk widgets and shows you how to customize their appearance and behavior to fit your application. Learn how to manage the placement of those widgets on the GUI and make them react to user behavior with event-driven code. The final chapter takes you through the entire start-to-finish process of building the user interface for an application, so you can see how all of these techniques work in a real-world development scenario.

Learning objectives
Installing Python 3 and Tcl/Tk for Mac or Windows
Creating and configuring themed Tk widgets
Decorating the GUI with text labels and images
Capturing input from buttons, menus, and entry fields
Presenting choices with check boxes and radio buttons
Using geometry managers to lay out the GUI
Organizing widgets inside of frames and windows
Handling user actions with event-driven programming
Creating a simple drawing tool with the Canvas
Prompting users with pop-up dialog boxes

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Create a GUI for your Python desktop application
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the exercise files
04 - 2023 Update

1. Getting Started with Python and Tkinter

05 - Installing Python 3 and Tcl Tk for Windows
06 - Installing Python 3 and Tcl Tk for Mac
07 - Saying hello to Tkinter

2. Tkinter Concepts

08 - Tk and Tkinter background
09 - Creating and configuring widgets
10 - Managing widget placement
11 - Handling user events
12 - Revisiting Hello, Tkinter

3. Basic Widgets

13 - Displaying text and images with labels
14 - Capturing input with buttons
15 - Presenting choices with check buttons and radio buttons
16 - Entering single-line text with the Entry widget
17 - Making selections with the Combobox and Spinbox
18 - Inputting values and displaying status with the Scale and Progressbar

4. Organizational Widgets

19 - Organizing widgets with frames
20 - Creating additional top-level windows
21 - Separating widgets within paned windows
22 - Grouping widgeting within a tabbed notebook

5. Advanced Widgets

23 - Entering and displaying multiple lines with the Text widget
24 - Adding tags, marks, images, and widgets to the Text widget
25 - Building a hierarchical treeview
26 - Adding columns and selecting items in the Treeview
27 - Building cascading menus
28 - Drawing a basic line on the Canvas
29 - Drawing complex shapes on the Canvas
30 - Attaching a scroll bar to widgets
31 - Configuring widget styles
32 - Prompting users with the Messagebox and dialogs

6. Geometry Management

33 - Using the Pack geometry manager
34 - Using the Grid geometry manager
35 - Using the Place geometry manager

7. Event Handling

36 - Configuring command callbacks
37 - Binding to keyboard events
38 - Binding to mouse events
39 - Binding to virtual events
40 - Binding to multiple events

8. Building an Application

41 - Defining project requirements
42 - Planning the design
43 - Creating the widgets
44 - Laying out of the widgets
45 - Binding to events
46 - Finishing the GUI with style

Conclusion

47 - Next steps