Tkinter Class API Reference

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Tk Application Root, Including Global Methods

• tkinter.Tk - Toplevel widget of Tk which represents mostly the main window of an application. It has an associated Tcl interpreter.

Ttk (Themed) Widgets

• tkinter.ttk.Button - Ttk Button widget, displays a textual label and/or image, and evaluates a command when pressed.
• tkinter.ttk.Checkbutton - Ttk Checkbutton widget which is either in on- or off-state.
• tkinter.ttk.Combobox - Ttk Combobox widget combines a text field with a pop-down list of values.
• tkinter.ttk.Entry - Ttk Entry widget displays a one-line text string and allows that string to be edited by the user.
• tkinter.ttk.Frame - Ttk Frame widget is a container, used to group other widgets together.
• tkinter.ttk.Label - Ttk Label widget displays a textual label and/or image.
• tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale - A Ttk Scale widget with a Ttk Label widget indicating its current value. The Ttk Scale can be accessed through instance.scale, and Ttk Label can be accessed through instance.label
• tkinter.ttk.Labelframe - Ttk Labelframe widget is a container used to group other widgets together. It has an optional label, which may be a plain text string or another widget.
• tkinter.ttk.Menubutton - Ttk Menubutton widget displays a textual label and/or image, and displays a menu when pressed.
• tkinter.ttk.Notebook - Ttk Notebook widget manages a collection of windows and displays a single one at a time.
• tkinter.ttk.OptionMenu - Themed OptionMenu, based after tkinter's OptionMenu, which allows the user to select a value from a menu.
• tkinter.ttk.Panedwindow - Ttk Panedwindow widget displays a number of subwindows, stacked either vertically or horizontally.
• tkinter.ttk.Progressbar - Ttk Progressbar widget shows the status of a long-running operation.
• tkinter.ttk.Radiobutton - Ttk Radiobutton widgets are used in groups to show or change a set of mutually-exclusive options.
• tkinter.ttk.Scale - Ttk Scale widget is typically used to control the numeric value of a linked variable that varies uniformly over some range.
• tkinter.ttk.Scrollbar - Ttk Scrollbar controls the viewport of a scrollable widget.
• tkinter.ttk.Separator - Ttk Separator widget displays a horizontal or vertical separator bar.
• tkinter.ttk.Sizegrip - Ttk Sizegrip allows the user to resize the containing toplevel window by pressing and dragging the grip.
• tkinter.ttk.Spinbox - Ttk Spinbox is an Entry with increment and decrement arrows It is commonly used for number entry or to select from a list of string values.
• tkinter.ttk.Treeview - Ttk Treeview widget displays a hierarchical collection of items.

Classic Widgets with No Themed Counterpart

• tkinter.Canvas - Canvas widget to display graphical elements like lines or text.
• tkinter.Listbox - Listbox widget which can display a list of strings.
• tkinter.Menu - Menu widget which allows displaying menu bars, pull-down menus and pop-up menus.
• tkinter.Text - Text widget which can display text in various forms.
• tkinter.Toplevel - Toplevel widget, e.g. for dialogs.

Classic Widgets Where a Themed Replacement is Available

• tkinter.Button - Button widget.
• tkinter.Checkbutton - Checkbutton widget which is either in on- or off-state.
• tkinter.Entry - Entry widget which allows displaying simple text.
• tkinter.Frame - Frame widget which may contain other widgets and can have a 3D border.
• tkinter.Label - Label widget which can display text and bitmaps.
• tkinter.LabelFrame - labelframe widget.
• tkinter.Menubutton - Menubutton widget, obsolete since Tk8.0.
• tkinter.Message - Message widget to display multiline text. Obsolete since Label does it too.
• tkinter.OptionMenu - OptionMenu which allows the user to select a value from a menu.
• tkinter.PanedWindow - panedwindow widget.
• tkinter.Radiobutton - Radiobutton widget which shows only one of several buttons in on-state.
• tkinter.Scale - Scale widget which can display a numerical scale.
• tkinter.Scrollbar - Scrollbar widget which displays a slider at a certain position.
• tkinter.Spinbox - spinbox widget.

Variables

• tkinter.Variable - Class to define value holders for e.g. buttons. Subclasses StringVar, IntVar, DoubleVar, BooleanVar are specializations that constrain the type of the value returned from get().
• tkinter.BooleanVar - Value holder for boolean variables.
• tkinter.DoubleVar - Value holder for float variables.
• tkinter.IntVar - Value holder for integer variables.
• tkinter.StringVar - Value holder for strings variables.

Images

• tkinter.BitmapImage - Widget which can display images in XBM format.
• tkinter.PhotoImage - Widget which can display images in PGM, PPM, GIF, PNG format.

Dialogs

• tkinter.filedialog.Directory - Ask for a directory
• tkinter.filedialog.Open - Ask for a filename to open
• tkinter.filedialog.SaveAs - Ask for a filename to save as
• tkinter.colorchooser.Chooser - Create a dialog for the tk_chooseColor command.

Other

• tkinter.ttk.Style - Manipulate style database.
• tkinter.font.Font - Represents a named font.