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Tkinter reference: a GUI for Python

Abstract

Describes the Tkinter widget set for constructing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in the Python programming language.

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Table of Contents

1. What is Tkinter?

2. A minimal application

3. Layout management

3.1. The .grid() method
3.2. Other grid management methods
3.3. Configuring column and row sizes
3.4. Making the root window resizeable

4. Standard attributes

4.1. Dimensions
4.2. Coordinate system
4.3. Colors
4.4. Type fonts
4.5. Anchors
4.6. Relief styles
4.7. Bitmaps
4.8. Cursors
4.9. Images
4.10. Geometry strings
4.11. Window names

5. The Button widget

6. The Canvas widget

6.1. Canvas concepts
6.2. Methods on Canvas objects
6.3. The canvas arc object
6.4. The canvas bitmap object
6.5. The canvas image object
6.6. The canvas line object
6.7. The canvas oval object
6.8. The canvas polygon object
6.9. The canvas rectangle object
6.10. The canvas text object
6.11. The canvas window object

7. The Checkbutton widget

8. The Entry widget

8.1. Scrolling an Entry widget

9. The Frame widget

10. The Label widget

11. The Listbox widget

11.1. Scrolling a Listbox widget

12. The Menu widget

12.1. Menu item creation (coption) options

13. The Menubutton widget

14. The Radiobutton widget

15. The Scale widget

16. The Scrollbar widget

16.1. The scrollbar command callback
16.2. Connecting scrollbars to other widgets

17. The Text widget

17.1. Indices in text widgets
17.2. Marks in text widgets
17.3. Images in text widgets
17.4. Windows in text widgets
17.5. Tags in text widgets
17.6. Setting tabs in a Text widget
17.7. Methods on Text widgets

18. Toplevel: Top-level window methods

19. Universal widget methods

20. Standardizing appearance

20.1. How to name a widget class
20.2. How to name a widget instance
20.3. Resource specification lines
20.4. Rules for resource matching

21. Connecting your application logic to the widgets

22. Control variables: the values behind the widgets

23. Focus: routing keyboard input

24.1. Levels of binding
24.2. Event sequences
24.3. Event types
24.4. Event modifiers
24.5. Key names
24.6. Writing your handler
24.7. The extra arguments trick
24.8. Virtual events

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Last updated: 2008-01-24 20:04

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