So appearantly many seems to have had this issue (me including) and I found the fault to be that Tkinter wasn't installed on my system when python was compiled. This post describes how to solve the problem by: Removing the virtual environment/python distribution install Tkinter with sudo apt-get install tk-dev (for deb) or sudo pacman -S tk (for arch/manjaro) Then proceed to compile python ...

Jul 14, 2014 · What does calling root = tk.Tk() actually do (as in, what gets initialized) and why can the previous snippet work without it? Would I run into any pitfalls or limitations if I don't call Tk() and just built my application around the Frame class?

Apr 20, 2017 · That being said, some image formats such as .gif, .pgm (and .png if tk.TkVersion >= 8.6) is already supported by the PhotoImage class. Below is an example displaying: or if tk.TkVersion < 8.6: try: # In order to be able to import tkinter for import tkinter as tk # either in python 2 or in python 3 except ImportError:

Jan 22, 2015 · What's the difference between the " fill " and " expand " options for Tkinter's pack method? I have actually looked up about it everywhere, and I am unable to find the satisfactory answer. I found the following: fill option: it determines whether to use up more space or keep "one's own" dimensions. expand option: it deals with the expansion of parent widget. The problem is that these two sound ...

The widgets in tkinter are highly and easily configurable. You have almost complete control over how they look - border widths, fonts, images, colors, etc. ttk widgets use styles to define how they look, so it takes a bit more work if you want a non-standard button. ttk widgets are also a little under-documented. Understanding the underlying theme and layout engines (layout within the …

Feb 2, 2014 · If you're willing to live dangerously, it's possible to hook in to the internals of the text widget, and have it call a function whenever the contents change, regardless of how it changed. The trick is to replace the underlying tk widget command with a proxy. This proxy is responsible for doing whatever the real text widget would do, then …

The comprehensive list of all symbols recognised by current tkinter (which bundles Tcl/Tk 8.6 threaded, as of when I'm writing this) can be found here.

I am trying to figure out how to change the title of a Tkinter Frame. Below is simplified code that mimics the portion of my program where I am trying to change the title: from Tkinter import * c...

Oct 17, 2021 · I agree pip's tk package is a tensor kit. However, if you install Python from the sources with tools such as pyenv tkinter is installed inside a package "jedi" : [site-packages\jedi\third_party\typeshed\stdlib\3\tkinter

Mar 6, 2019 · I am creating a GUI that builds information about a person. I want the user to select their birth month using a drop down bar, with the months configured earlier as a list format. from tkinter im...