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

by Mark Roseman

THIS IS AN OLDER EDITION. A newer version, thoroughly revised and expanded, is available. Quickly learn the right way to build attractive and modern graphical user interfaces with Python and Tkinter. You know some Python. You want to create a user interface for your application. You don't want to waste time messing around with things you don't need. Enter Tkinter. It's built right into Python. Everything you need is included in the standard Python distributions. No extra downloads. Your Python and Tkinter scripts will work on Windows, Mac and Linux. Tkinter has a simple, clean, Pythonic API and takes care of much of the housekeeping needed in GUI programming. You can focus on what's unique in your application. One HUGE Problem Tkinter has been around for a very long time. There's a lot of documentation, much of it created years ago. Nearly everything you'd find in that documentation still works today. But it's all wrong. Tkinter has a reputation for ugly and outdated user interfaces that don't fit in with modern systems. And if you follow the old documentation, that's exactly what you'll get. Because Tkinter has taken a quantum leap forward since all that documentation was written. There are new and better ways to build your user interface. Your program needs to be written differently to take advantage of that. Modern Tkinter shows you the right way to do it. You'll learn all the modern best practices. You'll build your user interface the right way the first time, without having to learn anything extra or irrelevant. It starts at the beginning, shows you what you need to know, and covers all the essential elements of building your modern user interface. This

Genres: Programming

214 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 31, 2019

About the author

Mark^^^Roseman

Reviews

[Jack Hwang · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very good tutorial book on Tkinter. It explains the essentials clearly and concisely with enough examples. It's very easy for a Python developer to grasp the necessary information regarding GUI with Tkinter.

Especially, this book focuses on ttk and only uses the classic widgets when absolutely necessary. It gives the readers a very clear idea about which widgets to use and why.

[SI Becker · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Useful Introduction

I had already been using tkinter for a little while so much of this book was familiar to me. Having said that, I also learned a lot. I think the book would benefit from more illustrations. If you are going to give code examples then you should also show how they display.

[Evan Cornish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great work

Solid info, very concise, easy to find the important parts.
I'd recommend reading this as a reference and just skipping through to what you need.