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tkinter widgets

Tkinter has several widgets including:


  • Label

  • EditText

  • Images

  • Buttons (Discussed before)

In this article we will show how to use some of these Tkinter widgets. Keep in mind there’s a slight difference between Tkinter for Python 2.x and 3.x

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Label
To create a label we simply call the Label() class and pack it. The numbers padx and pady are the horizontal and vertical padding.

from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()
root.title('Python Tk Examples @ pythonspot.com')
Label(root, text='Python').pack(pady=20,padx=50)

root.mainloop()

EditText (Entry widget)
To get user input you can use an Entry widget.

from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()
root.title('Python Tk Examples @ pythonspot.com')

var = StringVar()
textbox = Entry(root, textvariable=var)
textbox.focus_set()
textbox.pack(pady=10, padx=10)

root.mainloop()

Result:

tk entry tk entry

Images
Tk has a widget to display an image, the PhotoImage. It is quite easy to load an image:

from Tkinter import *
import os

root = Tk()
img = PhotoImage(file="logo2.png")
panel = Label(root, image = img)
panel.pack(side = "bottom", fill = "both", expand = "yes")
root.mainloop()

Result:

python tk image python tk image

If you are new to programming Tkinter, I highly recommend this course.

GUI editor
An overview of Tkinter GUI editors can be found here: http://wiki.tcl.tk/4056

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