Python GUI Development with Tkinter

Learn how to build a graphical user interface (GUI) for your Python applications with Tkinter.

Introduction

• Create a GUI for your Python desktop application
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
• 2023 Update

1. Getting Started with Python and Tkinter

• Installing Python 3 and Tcl/Tk for Windows
• Installing Python 3 and Tcl/Tk for Mac
• Saying hello to Tkinter

2. Tkinter Concepts

• Tk and Tkinter background
• Creating and configuring widgets
• Managing widget placement
• Handling user events
• Revisiting Hello, Tkinter!

3. Basic Widgets

• Displaying text and images with labels
• Capturing input with buttons
• Presenting choices with check buttons and radio buttons
• Entering single-line text with the Entry widget
• Making selections with the Combobox and Spinbox
• Inputting values and displaying status with the Scale and Progressbar

4. Organizational Widgets

• Organizing widgets with frames
• Creating additional top-level windows
• Separating widgets within paned windows
• Grouping widgeting within a tabbed notebook

5. Advanced Widgets

• Entering and displaying multiple lines with the Text widget
• Adding tags, marks, images, and widgets to the Text widget
• Building a hierarchical treeview
• Adding columns and selecting items in the Treeview
• Building cascading menus
• Drawing a basic line on the Canvas
• Drawing complex shapes on the Canvas
• Attaching a scroll bar to widgets
• Configuring widget styles
• Prompting users with the Messagebox and dialogs

6. Geometry Management

• Using the Pack geometry manager
• Using the Grid geometry manager
• Using the Place geometry manager

7. Event Handling

• Configuring command callbacks
• Binding to keyboard events
• Binding to mouse events
• Binding to virtual events
• Binding to multiple events

8. Building an Application

• Defining project requirements
• Planning the design
• Creating the widgets
• Laying out of the widgets
• Binding to events
• Finishing the GUI with style

Conclusion

• Next steps