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Drawing a basic line on the Canvas

Drawing a basic line on the Canvas

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Drawing a basic line on the Canvas

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- [Instructor] The Canvas widget gives you space on which to draw and organize various shapes, images and even other widgets. It's power and flexibility make it suitable for all sorts of tasks from creating a basic drawing space or displaying a diagram to building your own custom widgets with a unique look and feel. In this video and then next one, I'll go through the process of creating a canvas and using some of the common methods for drawing lines and shapes to the canvas as well as adding images and other widgets. Since the canvas is not one of the themed Tk widgets, we'll only need to import the Tkinter package. Now, I'll create my top-level Tk window using the constructor method, and to create a canvas I'll use the canvas constructor method. I'll pass at the top-level window as the parent, and I'll use the pack method to put my canvas in the window. By default, the canvas is just a blank area of this size. We can specify the size of the canvas by configuring the width and height…

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