Introduction to Programming using Python 1st Edition

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ISBN 10: 0132747189
ISBN 13: 978-0-13274-718-9

Chapter 9 - GUI Programming using Tkinter - Programming Exercises - Page 307: 9.18

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# 9.18 (Display flashing text) Write a program that displays the flashing text “Welcome,” # as shown in Figure 9.30a–b. (Hint: To make the text flash, you need to repeatedly # draw it on the canvas or alternately delete it. Use a Boolean variable to control the # alternation.) from tkinter import * # Import tkinter width = 200 height = 100 class MainGUI: def __init__(self): window = Tk() # Create a window window.title("Flashing Text") # Set a title sleepTime = 100 canvas = Canvas(window, bg="white", width=width, height=height) canvas.pack() on = True while True: if on: canvas.create_text(width / 2, height / 2, text="Welcome", tags="text") else: canvas.delete("text") on = not on canvas.after(sleepTime) # Sleep for 100 milliseconds canvas.update() window.mainloop() # Create an event loop MainGUI()
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