Library Management System

A desktop software developed using Tkinter package

What is Tkinter ?

Tkinter is Python's Graphical User Interface package. Which most commmonly used package for developing desktop applications using Python programming language.

Python offers multiple options for developing GUI (Graphical User Interface). Out of all the GUI methods, tkinter is the most commonly used method. It is a standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit shipped with Python. Python with tkinter is the fastest and easiest way to create the GUI applications. Creating a GUI using tkinter is an easy task.

To create a tkinter app:

1. Importing the module – tkinter

2. Create the main window (container)

3. Add any number of widgets to the main window

4. Apply the event Trigger on the widgets.

There are two main methods used which the user needs to remember while creating the Python application with GUI.

1. Tk(screenName=None, baseName=None, className=’Tk’, useTk=1):

To create a main window, tkinter offers a method ‘Tk(screenName=None, baseName=None, className=’Tk’, useTk=1)’. To change the name of the window, you can change the className to the desired one. The basic code used to create the main window of the application is:

                    
                    m=tkinter.Tk() where m is the name of the main window object
                    
                

2. mainloop():

There is a method known by the name mainloop() is used when your application is ready to run. mainloop() is an infinite loop used to run the application, wait for an event to occur and process the event as long as the window is not closed.

                    
                    m.mainloop()
                    
                

What is Library Management System ?

This is basic library Management system which designed for education purpose only just to undertand, how a basic software works.

A Library management system is a software that uses to maintain the record of the library. It contains work like the number of available books in the library, the number of books are issued or returning or renewing a book or late fine charge record, etc. Library Management Systems is software that helps to maintain a database that is useful to enter new books & record books borrowed by the members, with the respective submission dates. Moreover, it also reduces the manual record burden of the librarian.