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  • More Widgets
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  • Organizing Complex Interfaces
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Tutorial

This tutorial will quickly get you up and running with the latest Tk from Python, Tcl, Ruby, and Perl on macOS, Windows, or Linux. It provides all the essentials about core Tk concepts, the various widgets, layout, events and more that you need for your application.

Tutorial

  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Installing Tk
  • A First (Real) Example
  • Tk Concepts
  • Basic Widgets
  • The Grid Geometry Manager
  • More Widgets
  • Event Loop
  • Menus
  • Windows and Dialogs
  • Organizing Complex Interfaces
  • Fonts, Colors, Images
  • Canvas
  • Text
  • Treeview
  • Styles and Themes
  • Custom Styles and Themes
  • Case Study: IDLE Modernization
  1. Introduction
    • Who this tutorial is for
    • Modern best practices
    • The better way forward
    • How to use this tutorial
  2. Installing Tk
    • Installing Tk on macOS
    • Installing Tk on Windows
    • Installing Tk on Linux
    • The obligatory first program
  3. A First (Real) Example
    • Design
    • Code
    • Step-by-step walkthrough
    • What's missing?
  4. Tk Concepts
    • Widgets
    • Geometry management
    • Event handling
  5. Basic Widgets
    • Frame
    • Label
    • Button
    • Checkbutton
    • Radiobutton
    • Entry
    • Combobox
  6. The Grid Geometry Manager
    • Columns and rows
    • Spanning multiple cells
    • Layout within the cell
    • Handling resize
    • Padding
    • Additional grid features
    • Nested layouts
  7. More Widgets
    • Listbox
    • Scrollbar
    • Text
    • Scale
    • Spinbox
    • Progressbar
  8. Event Loop
    • Blocking the event loop
    • One step at a time
    • Asynchronous I/O
    • Threads or processes
    • Nested event processing
  9. Menus
    • Menubars and the menu hierarchy
    • Special menus on macOS
    • Special menus on Windows
    • Contextual menus
  10. Windows and Dialogs
    • Creating and destroying windows
    • Window behavior and styles
    • Dialog windows
  11. Organizing Complex Interfaces
    • Separator
    • Label Frames
    • Paned Windows
    • Notebook
  12. Fonts, Colors, Images
    • Fonts
    • Colors
    • Images
  13. Canvas
    • Creating items
    • Event bindings
    • Tags
    • Scrolling
  14. Text
    • The basics
    • Modifying the text in code
    • Formatting with tags
    • Events and bindings
    • Selecting text
    • Marks
    • Images and widgets
    • Even more
  15. Treeview
    • Adding items to the tree
    • Rearranging items
    • Displaying Information for each Item
    • Item appearance and events
    • Customizing the display
  16. Styles and Themes
    • Using existing themes
  17. Custom Styles and Themes
    • What's inside a style?
    • Manipulating styles
    • Sound difficult to you?
    • Advanced: more on elements
  18. Case Study: IDLE Modernization
    • Project goals
    • Menus
    • Main window
    • Preferences dialog
    • Other dialogs
    • Window integration
    • Workarounds, hacks, and more
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