https://github.com/akuli/tkinter-tutorial

Tkinter tutorial for beginners.
https://github.com/akuli/tkinter-tutorial

beginner beginner-friendly gui guide tkinter tutorial

Last synced: 2 months ago
JSON representation

Tkinter tutorial for beginners.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/akuli/tkinter-tutorial
• Owner: Akuli
• License: other
• Created: 2017-04-13T18:31:12.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-10-03T15:45:19.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-18T05:09:11.518Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: beginner, beginner-friendly, gui, guide, tkinter, tutorial
• Language: Python
• Size: 107 KB
• Stars: 114
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 25
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

        
# Tkinter Tutorial for Beginners

When I was getting started with Python I loved writing Tkinter GUIs. At

first they felt really complicated because the tutorial I was following

wasn't very good. Even the hello world example had a class with

inheritance, and I didn't know what was a class at the time.

This tutorial consists of minimal examples and explains common mistakes.

You don't need to have any experience in GUI programming to read this

tutorial, and you don't even need to know what is a GUI. All you need is

[basic Python

skills](https://github.com/Akuli/python-tutorial/tree/master/basics#basics).

**If you need help**, you're not alone! [Click

here](https://kiwiirc.com/client/chat.freenode.net/##learnpython) to go

to a free Python help chat. If you see Akuli in the user list, that's me.

## Which GUI toolkit?

GUI is short for Graphical User Interface. It means a program that we

can use without a command prompt or a terminal, like a web browser, a

file manager or an editor.

Tkinter is an easy way to write GUIs in Python. Unlike bigger GUI

toolkits like Qt and GTK+, tkinter comes with Python so many Python

users have it already. Tkinter works on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, so

it's a good choice for writing cross-platform programs. For example, I

have written [Porcupine](https://github.com/Akuli/porcupine) using

tkinter.

Tkinter is not a good choice if you want to write programs mainly for

Linux users. Most Linux distributions don't come with tkinter and

tkinter applications look different than Qt and GTK+ applications on

Linux. On the other hand, many Linux distributions come with

[GTK+](https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), so I

recommend using that if you want to write programs for Linux users.

You can also use [PyQt](http://zetcode.com/gui/pyqt5/) if you want to

write cross-platform GUI programs. It doesn't come with Python and

installing it can be difficult, but PyQt programs look good on Windows,

Mac and Linux.

Tkinter is light, but it's also limited in some ways. For example, you

can't write a web browser in tkinter, but it's possible to write web

browsers in GTK+ and PyQt. Simpler things like text editors and music

players can be written in tkinter.

## List of contents

1. [Getting Started](getting-started.md)

2. [Buttons](buttons.md)

3. [Geometry Managers](geometry-managers.md)

4. [Dialogs](dialogs.md)

5. There will be more stuff here later...

6. [Event Loop and Threads](event-loop-stuff.md)