Making a blackjack game in Tkinter is relatively easy. First, create a window with a Tkinter display object and place a label at the top that reads “Blackjack.” Next, create a table that will hold the player’s cards and bet amounts. The table should be rectangular and have four columns: card, rank, value, and payback.
The card column should be wide enough to hold the player’s cards, while the other three columns should be narrow enough to fit in one row of the table. Finally, create two buttons on the left side of the table that will allow the player to draw cards and make bets.
When the player clicks on the button to draw cards, an inner loop will be executed that will draw from the deck of cards. The deck can be populated by calling the cardreader() function, which takes as its only argument an index number that corresponds to a card from the deck.
If there are no more cards in the deck, an empty string will be returned. To get the rank and value of a card, use the getcard() and getvalue() functions respectively.
When it is time to make a bet, first check to see if there are any active bets in the table. If there are no active bets, then it is time to generate new bet amounts based on how much money is currently in the player’s account.
To do this, call the generatebet() function which takes as its only argument an amount in cents (or dollars depending on your game settings). Finally, add a user input checkbox next to the generatebet() function so that players can input their bet amounts manually.
When it is time to deal new hands of cards, use either of two methods: dealing from an internal queue or using Tkinter’s built-in random number generator (RNG). If you want to deal from an internal queue then call the dealfromqueue() function which takes as its only argument an index number that corresponds to a card from the deck. This function will return an integer value that corresponds to how many cards were dealt (1 for one card and 2 for two cards).
If you want to use Tkinter’s RNG then call rng(). This function will return a random integer between 0 and 9999999 (inclusive).
