A Concise Introduction to Programming in Python

Chapter 28

Graphical User Interfaces

Most software written today uses a graphical user interface (GUI) rather

than the text-based interface we have used in most of our examples. In this

chapter, we rewrite the Chuck-a-Luck program from Chapter 24 to use a

graphical interface.

Listing 28.1: Chuck-a-Luck (GUI Version)

1 # chuckgui.py

2

3 from dicegui import DiceGUI

4 from tkinter import

*

5

6 class ChuckALuckGUI(Frame):

7 def __init__(self, parent):

8 Frame.__init__(self, parent)

9 parent.geometry("500x300")

10 parent.title("Chuck-A-Luck")

11 self.dice = DiceGUI(3, self)

12 self.dice.pack(fill="y", expand=True)

13 self.score = 0

14 self.makecontrols()

15 self.makescore() ...