With that background information about using a queue to handle multithreaded applications, let's build our Snake game.
Upon completion, the game will look as follows:
Building the Snake game
by Bhaskar Chaudhary
Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints - Second Edition
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
- Meet Tkinter
- Technical requirements
- Project overview
- Getting started
- GUI programming – the big picture
- The root window – your drawing board
- Widgets – the building blocks of GUI programs
- The Tkinter geometry manager
- Events and callbacks – adding life to programs
- Handling widget-specific variables
- Event unbinding and virtual events
- Doing it in style
- Some common root window options
- Getting interactive help
- Summary
- QA section
- Further reading
- Making a Text Editor
- Project overview
- Getting started – setting up the editor skeleton
- Adding a menu and menu items
- Implementing the View menu
- Adding a built-in functionality
- Indexing and tagging
- Implementing the Select All feature
- Implementing the Find Text feature
- Types of Toplevel window
- Working with forms and dialogs
- Working with message boxes
- The icons toolbar and View menu functions
- Displaying line numbers
- Adding the cursor information bar
- Adding themes
- Creating a context/pop-up menu
- Summary
- QA section
- Further reading
- Programmable Drum Machine
- Getting started
- Technical requirements
- Setting up the GUI in OOP
- Finalizing the data structure
- Creating broader visual elements
- Defining getter and setter methods
- The number of units and beats per unit features
- Loading drum samples
- Playing the drum machine
- Tkinter and threading
- Support for multiple beat patterns
- Saving beat patterns
- Working with ttk-themed widgets
- Summary
- QA section
- Further reading
- Game of Chess
- An overview of the chapter
- Module requirements for this chapter
- Structuring our program
- Modeling the data structure
- Creating a Piece class
- Making the game functional
- Managing user preferences
- Summary
- QA section
- Further reading
- Building an Audio Player
- An overview of the chapter
- External library requirements
- Program structure and broadview skeleton
- Deciding the data structure
- Creating the Player class
- Adding and removing items from a playlist
- Playing audio and adding audio controls
- Creating a seek bar
- One-time updates during audio playback
- Managing continuous updates
- Looping over tracks
- Adding a tooltip
- Summary
- QA section
- Further reading
- Paint Application
- Overview of the application
- Creating a tiny framework
- Setting up a broad GUI structure
- Dealing with mouse events
- Adding toolbar buttons
- Drawing items on the canvas
- Adding a color palette
- Adding top bar options for draw methods
- Drawing irregular lines and super shapes
- Adding functionality to the remaining buttons
- Adding functionality to menu items
- Summary
- QA section
- Further reading
- Piano Tutor
- Technical requirements
- A brief primer on piano terms
- Building the broad GUI structure
- Making the piano keyboard
- Playing audio
- Building the scales tutor
- Building the chord finder section
- Building the chord progression tutor
- Building the score maker
- A note on window responsiveness
- Summary
- QA section
- Further reading
- Fun with Canvas
- Multiple Fun Projects
- Technical requirements
- Building a Snake game
- Creating a Weather Reporter application
- A simple socket demo
- Building a port scanner
- Building a chat application
- Creating a phone book application
- Using asyncio with Tkinter
- Interfacing with hardware/serial communication
- Summary
- QA section
- Further reading
- Miscellaneous Tips
- Tracing Tkinter variables
- Widget traversal
- Validating user input
- Formatting widget data
- More on fonts
- Redirecting the command-line output to Tkinter
- The class hierarchy of Tkinter
- Tips for program design
- Handling cross-platform differences 
- Tips for program optimization
- Distributing a Tkinter application
- The limitations of Tkinter
- Alternatives to Tkinter
- Tkinter in Python 2.x
- Summary
- QA section
- Other Books You May Enjoy
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