Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT

Building a screen saver

We will start by building a screen saver for our desktop. The screen saver will consist of several random-colored and random-sized balls bouncing all over the screen at random velocity, as shown in the following screenshot:

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Carry out the following steps to create the screen saver:

1. Let's create a class to generate balls with random attributes. Accordingly, we define a new class named RandomBall to achieve this (refer to the 7.01 screensaver.py Python file, available in the code bundle):

   from random import randint class RandomBall: def __init__(self, canvas, scrnwidth, scrnheight): self.canvas = canvas self.xpos ...