Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be generating ascii art from string or text in tkinter. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to install the following library using the pip command as shown below

pip install tkinter

After installing this library make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

#By Dx55
import tkinter as tk
import requests

#Generating window
window = tk.Tk()
window.geometry("750x500")
window.title("ASCII ART")
window.grid_columnconfigure(0, weight=1)

#Download function
def download_ascii():
    if text_input.get():
        user_input = text_input.get()
        payload = {"text": user_input}
        response = requests.get("http://artii.herokuapp.com/make",
                                params=payload)
        text_response = response.text
    else:
        text_response = "Write Up"

#Text widget
    textwidget = tk.Text()
    textwidget.insert(tk.END, text_response)
    textwidget.grid(row=3, column=0, sticky="WE", padx=10, pady=10)


#Credits label
credits_label = tk.Label(window, text="Ascii Art By artii.herokuapp.com")
credits_label.grid(row=4, column=0, sticky="S", pady=10)
        

#Welcome label
welcome_label = tk.Label(window, 
                         text="Welcome! Write something",
                         font=("Helvetica",15))
welcome_label.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky="N", padx=20, pady=10)

#Text input
text_input = tk.Entry()
text_input.grid(row=1, column=0, sticky="WE", padx=10)

#Download button
download_button = tk.Button(text="DOWNLOAD YOUR ART", command=download_ascii)
download_button.grid(row=2, column=0, sticky="WE", padx=10, pady=10)



#Main loop
if __name__ == "__main__":
    window.mainloop()

And now if you execute the above script with the command which is shown below

python app.py