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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Animating Canvas objects

Tkinter's Canvas widget doesn't have a built-in animation framework, but we can still create simple animations by combining its move() method with our understanding of the event queue.

To demonstrate this, we'll create a bug race simulator, in which two bugs (represented by colored circles) will race haphazardly toward a finish line on the other side of the screen. Like real bugs, they won't have any notion that they're in a race and will move randomly, the winner being whichever bug incidentally hits the finish line first.

To begin, open a new Python file and start with a basic boilerplate as follows:

import tkinter as tk

class App(tk.Tk):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
App().mainloop()
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