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GUI Development with Python and Tkinter

Introduction

Welcome to this course!

Initial setup (for newer Pythonistas)

Creating Your First Tkinter App

Setting up Tkinter

Hello, World with Tkinter

Tkinter Buttons

Our Greetings App

Packing components in Tkinter

Packing components with Frames

Our Greetings App using Pack

The Tkinter Grid Geometry Manager

Enabling High-DPI in Windows 10

Tkinter Widget Reference

Introduction to this section

Labels in Tkinter

The Text Widget in Tkinter

Scrollbars in Tkinter

Separators in Tkinter

Check Buttons in Tkinter

Radio Buttons in Tkinter

Comboboxes in Tkinter

Listboxes in Tkinter

Spinboxes in Tkinter

Scales in tkinter

Milestone Project: Distance Converter

Initial setup

Calculating the number of feet

Updating our feet display label dynamically

Shortcuts and Keybindings in Tkinter

How to change the font of a Tkinter widget

The Tkinter winfo_children method

Object-Oriented Programming with Tkinter

An Object-Oriented Window in Tkinter

An Object-Oriented Frame

A Full Tkinter Object-Oriented App

Making our Distance Converter use Object-Oriented Programming

Adding an inner container for better control of space

Creating a FeetToMetres frame

How to switch between frames (or views) in a Tkinter app

Adding keybindings to our app

Tkinter Themes and Styles

Tkinter themes, and how to change theme

Finding a Tkinter widget's style class

How to change and configure a Tkinter style

Find out what properties you can change in a Tkinter style

How to create new inherited styles in Tkinter

How to configure state-specific options in a Tkinter style

Can you change the entry field font using styles?

How to use named fonts in Tkinter

Milestone Project: Pomodoro Timer

Introduction: app overview

Creating a simple Countdown Timer with Tkinter

Adding timer breaks

Showing the current timer's description label on the side

How to start and stop the timer

How to reset the timer

Linking our Timer frame with the controller

Splitting our Tkinter app into multiple files

Creating the user Settings Frame

Adding the ability to switch between frames

Styling our Pomodoro Timer with custom styles and state-specific styles

Build a Chat app with Tkinter

Overview of what the app will look like

How to get the chat messages from the API

Creating a label for each message received

Showing the message date in another label

How to add a sample user avatar to each message

How to create scrollable Frames with Tkinter

How to code the scrollable Frame in our application

Handling resizing and wrapping labels

Sending message data to the API

Styling our completed app

Build a Snake Game with Tkinter

Build the Snake Game!

Packaging and Distributing executables

Installation and documentation of pyinstaller

Two ways to bundle apps into executables with Python

Bundling a standalone app

How to include data files with an executable Python app

How to include data files in a --onefile executable

How to hide the console window when packaging applications

When things go wrong packaging Python apps

Building Python apps for multiple platforms

Wrapping up!

Other courses and next steps

Creating Your First Tkinter App

Hello, World with Tkinter

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