In this video I’ll show you how to move objects on a Tkinter Canvas using the Arrow Keys on your keyboard.

It’s fairly easy to bind keyboard events with Tkinter. In this video we’ll look at binding arrow keys, but also regular letters on the keyboard as well.

Once we bind the events to a specific function in our TKinter program, we can then use the .move() function to move our canvas object using x and y coordinates that we’ll define.

John Elder

John is the CEO of Codemy.com where he teaches over 100,000 students how to code! He founded one of the Internet's earliest advertising networks and sold it to a publicly company at the height of the first dot com boom. After that he developed the award-winning Submission-Spider search engine submission software that's been used by over 3 million individuals, businesses, and governments in over 42 countries. He's written several Amazon #1 best selling books on coding, and runs a popular Youtube coding channel.

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John Elder

John is the CEO of Codemy.com where he teaches over 100,000 students how to code! He founded one of the Internet's earliest advertising networks and sold it to a publicly company at the height of...