The need to separate the model or data structure from the view is the key to building scalable applications. While it is possible to intermix the two components, you will soon find your program getting messy and difficult to maintain.
Separating the model from the view
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
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