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building a graphical user interface

Your Programming Toolbox

You’ve got Chapter 7 under your
belt. Let’s look back at what
you’ve learned in this chapter: CHAPTER 7

Programming T ools

* Using a third-party programming

library
* Playing with a sound library
* Event loops - respond to events

when they occur Python T ools
* Event handler - code that executes

when a certain event occurs
* GUI - a graphical user interface * pygame - a professional-level set of
gaming libraries that support sound
(looks nice, doesn’t it?)
* Widget - a GUI interface element * break - exit from a loop
* pass - a piece of code that does nothing

* tkinter - a standard library for
creating GUIs
* Tk() - a blank GUI app

* Button() - a tkinter button widget

* Label() - a tkinter label widget
* IntVar() - a tkinter integer variable
that can update the GUI “as if by magic”

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