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Summary: Python and Tkinter Programming
Review: Tkinter (pronounced tea-kay-inter), the GUI package bundledwith the Python programming language, is a clean, object-orientedinterface to the Tcl/Tk graphical toolkit. It enables you to quickly write GUI code that runs with a native look and feel on Unix, Macintosh, and Windows."Python and Tkinter Programming" is a detailed introduction that carefully leads you through the landscape. It makes Tkinter's capabilities available to any reader who knows the basics of Python. It gives you real-world code that does real work -- no toy examples. And, it documents Tkinter in a reference section that you'll find helpful and easy to use...
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Summary: Tkinter shortchanged
Review: Tkinter gets a too-brief treatment in Grayson's rush to get on to the subject of Pmw, the Python megawidget library, which seems to be the real subject of the book. If you're not going to work in Pmw, most of this book is useless. The basics of Tk are poorly presented, apparently on the assumption that the reader is already familiar with Tk. The first appendix is devoted to the mapping between Tk and Tkinter, a typical "nugget" being the revelation that the Tk construct "-label string" maps onto the Tkinter construct "label=string", which conveys no useful information in the absence of a complete Tk reference. Appendix B, a Tkinter reference, has often left me frustrated. It begins with the understandable space-saving device of a list of "Options shared by most widgets," but then continues with "Options shared by many widgets" (why separate?) and "Common widget methods," whose connection with the rest of the appendix is obscure. Studying a widget's entry in Appendix B seldom produces a confident grasp of how to use that widget. The book is mostly tutorial in form, suited for leisurely reading but frustrating as a reference.
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Summary: An excellent book.
Review: Tkinter is a very versatile and flexible toolkit. This is a very informative book that shows how to use it. This book has many examples that helped me learn how to apply Tkinter knowledge to real-life applications. Packed with information, not psuedo-content designed to guide the reader along every step of the path. I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn how to create polished looking GUIs with the Python programming language.
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