It can contain buttons, text entry fields, labels, checkboxes and many more, these are all called widgets.Ī widgets are object that can be used as part of your application these can be buttons, text entries, check boxes or something more complex like a a collection of widgets that are joined together to create something more complicated, we will create an example of this in this tutorial.Īll the examples in this tutorial have been developed for Python 3 using IDLE3 on a Raspberry Pi. It will also show the name of the application.Ī frame is a blank object that exists inside a window. Tkinter isn't fully features or particularly beautiful but it provides basic widget types that you can use to quickly create application that you can run on your Raspberry Pi.Ī window is what you see when you open any graphical program on your computer, it will include the minimise, maximise and close buttons depending on your operating system. In order to create Graphical User Interfaces, Python comes with Tkinter as standard.
Melisa also takes care of maintaining and updating the website together with Bernd. Further chapters are currently being created by Bernd and Melisa. Melisa Atay has created a chapter on Tkinter. Some chapters of the chapter on machine learning were created by Tobias Schlagenhauf. Most of this tutorial was created by Bernd Klein. Jaroslav Kubias, the translator of Elkner-Downey-MeyersÂŽs "How to think like a computer scientist" into Czech, has translated our tutorial into the Czech language:
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