Python Game Programming By Example

The basic GUI layout

We will start out game by creating a top-level window as in the simple program we ran previously. However, this time, we will use two nested widgets: a container frame and the canvas where the game objects will be drawn, as shown here:

With Tkinter, this can easily be achieved using the following code:

import tkinter as tk

lives = 3
root = tk.Tk()
frame = tk.Frame(root)
canvas = tk.Canvas(frame, width=600, height=400, bg='#aaaaff')
frame.pack()
canvas.pack()
root.title('Hello, Pong!')
root.mainloop()

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