Chapter 16. Graphical user interfaces
This chapter covers
- Installing Tkinter
- Starting and using Tkinter
- Understanding the principles of Tk
- Writing a simple Tkinter application
- Creating and placing widgets
- Alternatives to Tkinter
This chapter, an introduction to programming GUIs in Python, will do two things. First, it will provide a look at the GUI package that comes with Python, taking into account things like its ease of use, the capabilities of the package, cross-platform portability, and so forth. Second, it will give a brief overview of what else is available for GUI programming with Python and how to find it.
The Python core language has no built-in support for GUIs. It’s a pure programming language, like C, Perl, or Pascal. As such, ...
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