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How to attach a vertical scrollbar in Tkinter text widget?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:15:30

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The Scrollbar widget in tkinter is one of the useful widgets that is used to pack the container elements and their contents with a scrollbar. With Scrollbars, we can view large sets of data very efficiently.Generally, Tkinter allows to add vertical and horizontal scrollbar in the application. By default, the vertical scrollbars are available in the constructor and we don't need to have an orientation for the scrollbar. To attach a vertical scrollbar in a Tkinter text widget, you can use xscrollcommand and yscrollcommmand to set the value of vertical and horizontal scrollbars.Example# Import the required library from tkinter import ... Read More

How to get a horizontal scrollbar in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:14:14

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The Scrollbar widget in tkinter is one of the useful widgets that is used to pack the container elements and their contents with a scrollbar. With Scrollbars, we can view large sets of data very efficiently.Generally, Tkinter allows to add vertical and horizontal scrollbars. To add a horizontal scrollbar in an application, we've to use the orientation as Horizontal in the scrollbar constructor.ExampleLet us create a text editor that contains a horizontal scrollbar in it.# Import the required library from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk from tkinter import messagebox # Create an instance of tkinter frame win=Tk() ... Read More

How do I use Window Manager (wm) attributes in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:13:10

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The Window Manager is a toolkit available in Tcl/Tk that can be accessed with the command 'wm'. The 'wm' command allows you to set the appearance and geometry of the Tkinter window. We can control the title, color, size, and other attributes with this command. The 'wm' command has numerous keywords that can be used to modify its property.Example# Import the required library from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk from tkinter import messagebox # Create an instance of tkinter frame win=Tk() # Set the geometry win.geometry("700x350") Label(win, text="This window is disabled.",    font=("Calibri, 24")).pack() ... Read More

Passing arguments to a Tkinter button command

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:11:57

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The Button widget in Tkinter is generally used for pushing an event defined in an application. We can bind the events with buttons that allow them to execute and run whenever an action is triggered by the user.However, sharing the data and variables outside the function and events seems difficult sometimes. With the Button widget, we can pass arguments and data that allows the user to share and execute the event.In general, passing the arguments to a button widget allows the event to pick the arguments and use them further in the program.Example# Import the required library from tkinter import ... Read More

How to get a Popup Dialog in Tkinter/Python?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:10:23

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Tkinter is a standard Python library that is used to create and develop GUI-based applications. We can create an application in Tkinter and add widgets to it that make the application more interactive.Let's suppose we want to show a popup dialog in an application. In this case, we can use the built-in messagebox module in tkinter. It allows us to show the various dialog boxes such as errors, info box, confirmation boxes, etc.ExampleIn this example, we've created a button, which upon clicking will show a popup message on the screen.# Import the required library from tkinter import * from tkinter ... Read More

How do I use PIL with Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:06:51

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The PIL or Pillow package in Python provides a way to process images in a program. We can open an image, manipulate the image for different use, and can use it to visualize the data as well. In order to use the PIL package in Tkinter, you've to install the Python Pillow library in your environment.To install Pillow, just type pip install pillow. Once the installation has been successful, you can import the module in your project and use it for further implementation.ExampleIn this example, we've displayed an image in the canvas widget using Python Pillow package.# Import the required ... Read More

How to add a separator in Menu item in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:04:36

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The Tkinter Menu widget is used to create a dropdown menu in an application. With menu widgets, we can select an item from the menu and run a specific task in the application.In many applications, we see a dotted separator line that separates the menu items in the menu. The separator separates the menu item of one type from another, and we can use it to visualize the hierarchy of the menu items. To create a separator among the menu items, you can use the add_separator() method.Example# Import the required libraries from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk ... Read More

How to draw a dot on a canvas on a click event in Tkinter Python?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:02:52

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Consider a case for creating a GUI application such that when we click on the window with a mouse button, it stores the coordinates and draws a dot. Tkinter provides events that allow the user to bind the keys or buttons with the functions.To draw a dot on click event, we can follow these general steps −Create a canvas widget and pack it to display in the window.Define a function draw_dot() that works as the event when the user does the click event.Create a global variable that counts the number of clicks in the canvas.If the count becomes two, then ... Read More

Drawing a line between two mouse clicks using tkinter

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 11-Oct-2021 07:45:01

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Consider a case for creating a GUI application such that when we click on the window with a mouse button, it stores the coordinates and creates a line between two given points. Tkinter provides events that allow the user to bind the keys or buttons with the functions.To draw a line between two points, we can follow these general steps, Create a canvas widget and pack it to display in the window.Define a function draw_line() that works as the event when the user does the click event.Create a global variable that counts the number of clicks in the canvas.If the ... Read More

Using a Frame class in a Tk class in Python tkinter

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 13:59:25

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Tkinter Frame widget is very useful for grouping multiple widgets in a frame. It includes all the functions and properties that applies to the parent window.To create a Frame widget, we can instantiate an object of the Frame class. Once we define the Frame widget in the window, we can directly pick any widget and place it into the frame.ExampleIn this example, we've created a Frame widget and defined some widgets in it.# Import the required libraries from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk # Create an instance of tkinter frame or window win=Tk() # Set the ... Read More

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