Tkinter (Page 2)

Introduction to the Menubutton widget A Menubutton widget is a combination of a Button and a Menu widget. When you click the Menubutton, it shows a menu with choices. For example: To create a Menubutton widget, you follow these steps: First, create a MenuButton widget: menu_button = ttk.Menubutton(container, **options)Code language: Python (python) Second, create a new instance of the Menu class: menu = tk.Menu(menu_button, tearoff=False)CodeContinue Reading

When an application contains a lot of functions, you need to use menus to organize them for easier navigation. Typically, you use a menu to group closely related operations. For example, you can find the File menu in most text editors. Tkinter natively supports menus. It displays menus with theContinue Reading

Introduction to the Tkinter color chooser dialog To display a native color chooser dialog, you use the tkinter.colorchooser module. First, import the askcolor() function from the tkinter.colorchooser module: from tkinter.colorchooser import askcolorCode language: Python (python) Second, call the askcolor() function to display the color chooser dialog: askcolor(color=None, **options)Code language: Python (python) If you select a color, the askcolor() function returnsContinue Reading

Introduction to the Tkinter Open File Dialog functions When developing a Tkinter application that deals with the file system, you need to provide a dialog that allows file selections. To do that, you can use the tkinter.filedialog module. The following steps show how to display an open file dialog: First, import the tkinter.filedialog module:Continue Reading

Introduction to the Tkinter askretrycancel() function Sometimes, the application performs a task but fails to do so because of an error. For example, you may want to connect to a database server. However, the database server is currently not reachable. It may be offline for a short period of time.Continue Reading

Introduction to the Tkinter askretrycancel() function Sometimes, the application performs a task but fails to do so because of an error. For example, you may want to connect to a database server. However, the database server is currently not reachable. It may be offline for a short period of time.Continue Reading

Introduction to the Tkinter askokcancel() function The askokcancel() function shows a confirmation dialog that has two buttons: OK and Cancel. answer = askokcancel(title, message, **options)Code language: Python (python) If you click the OK button, the function returns True. However, if you click the Cancel button, the function returns False. Tkinter askokcancel() example The following program shows a Delete All button. If you clickContinue Reading

Introduction to the Tkinter askyesno() function Sometimes, you need to ask for user confirmation. For example, if users click the quit button, you want to ask whether they really want to close the application. Or they just accidentally do so: To show a dialog that asks for user confirmation, youContinue Reading

Introduction to tkinter.messagebox module When developing a Tkinter application, you often want to notify users about the events that occurred. For example, when users click the save button, you want to notify them that the record has been saved successfully. If an error occurred, for example, the database server is notContinue Reading