Tutorial

This tutorial will quickly get you up and running with the latest Tk from Python, Tcl, Ruby, and Perl on macOS, Windows, or Linux. It provides all the essentials about core Tk concepts, the various widgets, layout, events and more that you need for your application.

Tutorial

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  1. Introduction
  2. Installing Tk
  3. A First (Real) Example
  4. Tk Concepts
  5. Basic Widgets
  6. The Grid Geometry Manager
  7. More Widgets
  8. Event Loop
  9. Menus
  10. Windows and Dialogs
  11. Organizing Complex Interfaces
  12. Fonts, Colors, Images
  13. Canvas
  14. Text
  15. Treeview
  16. Styles and Themes
  17. Custom Styles and Themes
  18. Case Study: IDLE Modernization

TkDocs © 2007- by Mark Roseman is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0CCBYNCSA.

New for 2025: Fourth Edition

All of Python TkDocs. New in this edition:

Now includes Tkinter API Reference

Structuring & refining Tkinter code*

Third-party themes & widgets*

*Bonus material not available on TkDocs web site.

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