Tkinter Wiki
Tkinter is the most portable GUI toolkit for Python. The aim of this Wiki is to gather information to help Python programmers better use Tkinter.
Interesting starting points:
Tkinter: Tkinter overview
Widgets: the widgets Tkinter provides
ContributedWidgets: Share a cool widget with the community
ExampleCode: demos of Tkinter in action
CommonProblems: traps for young players
Recipes: General Tkinter recipes
LayoutManagement: the geometry managers (packer and gridder)
UnicodeSupport: Making Tkinter display languages you can't understand
PhotoImage: Tkinter PhotoImage objects and their idiosyncracies
tkFileDialog: How to open and save files or opening directories using a filedialog.
Events: about events
tkXcursor: How to set custom ARGB/animated cursor for Tkinter widgets under X11.
mtTkinter: A thread-safe version of Tkinter
Tka11y: Tk Accessibility, and automated GUI testing
Tkinter_3000: the far future?
CategoryGames: games and toys
TkinterDiscuss: the mailing list about Tkinter
Tkinter_Links: useful links to Tkinter
Tcl/Tk_Links: useful links to Tcl and Tk
Note: As of Python 3.0, Tkinter and related modules were replaced by the tkinter package. |
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- Link to the Python Wiki where appropriate
- We need a page comparing Tkinter to the other GUI toolkits.
Widgets: Add information missing from 'pydoc Tkinter' here
Usage: snippets of tkinter in use
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! |
Organizational stuff:
AdministrativeTasks: If a page should be deleted, note it here
CategoryHomepage: Links to users' pages
Wiki topics:
RecentChanges: see where people are currently working
HelpForBeginners: to get you going
WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing
FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways
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