
Learn the basics of building Python GUI applications with Tkinter, including creating a window, adding widgets, and using geometry managers to lay out buttons, canvases, and checkbuttons, in event-driven programming.
Explore Tkinter entry widgets for single-line input and how they differ from text and label widgets, and learn frame layouts with options like show, export selection, and scrollbar linking.
Learn to configure a Tkinter listbox to display items, support single, multiple, and extended selection, and enable horizontal and vertical scrolling with core operations like activate, get, delete, and insert.
Explore Tkinter basics part 4, covering the message widget with wrapping and alignment, the radio button group with state and value control, and the scale widget configuration.
Explore Tkinter basics: customize scrollbars—orientation, colors, focus, and callbacks. Master the text widget’s multiline editing, formatting, and embedding, with essential methods like get, insert, and delete.
Explore Tkinter basics by examining the SpinVox widget options and related controls. Learn how fonts, dimensions, colors, anchors, and the pack, grid, and place geometry managers work together.
Learn Tkinter basics in Python by importing the module, creating a main window, setting a title, configuring dimensions, fonts, and color, and adding widgets with a geometry manager.
Learn how to set up a Tkinter window, create and place a label and a button with grid geometry, customize fonts and colors, and handle clicks with a command.
Master Tkinter entry widgets to capture user input, pair labels with entries, and trigger actions on button clicks using a command function; retrieve text with get and update the display.
Learn to create Tkinter check buttons and radio buttons, using boolean variables and default states, arranged with grid geometry, and capture the selected value via a function.
Create and configure a tkinter scroll text widget, insert and delete content, and use grid layout; also display info dialogs with messagebox showinfo via a button.
Explore tkinter message boxes, including warning and question types, with yes, no, and yes/no/cancel options, and learn to read the result to control flow.
Learn to build a Tkinter spin box with defined value ranges or lists, set a default, and explore basic progress indicators and styling using themes.
Create a Tkinter menubar with top-level menus and cascade submenus, including file, new, and open, then add items and separators with cascade and config.
Create a notebook widget to host multiple tabs, add frames and labels, and control layout with the geometry manager using expand, fill, and padding options like padx and pady.
Learn to build tkinter gui apps by creating a window, adding widgets such as buttons, labels, and entries, and positioning them with place and geometry.
Explore how to create and configure radio buttons, check buttons, a combo box, and a listbox in tkinter, including multiple selection, data handling, and populating lists with the insert function.
Explore event handling in tkinter, learning how events trigger actions via binding or command parameters, covering mouse clicks, focus changes, window destruction, and keyboard events.
Build a Tkinter-based Python GUI that performs addition and subtraction using labels, entries, and buttons, and illustrates event handling with a class-based window.
Learn to simplify a Tkinter GUI by converting a multiclass program into a straightforward window with labels and buttons, using the command option, and defining functions before they are called.
Learn to draw shapes on the canvas widget using the create line function, exploring lines, arcs, rectangles, polygons and hexagons, and dash patterns with coordinates, fill and expand options.
Explore drawing three colored rectangles on a Tkinter canvas using create_rectangle, learn how two points define a rectangle, and apply outline and fill colors.
Draw shapes on a canvas using tkinter's create oval, create rectangle, create arc, and create polygon, with fill and outline colors and the top-left to bottom-right coordinates.
Master the pack geometry manager by using fill, expand, and side options to make widgets fill the available space and align, demonstrated with listbox and labels.
Learn to draw text on a Tkinter canvas by creating a main window and canvas, then use create_text with x and y coordinates and an anchor to display multiple lines.
Explore geometry managers in Tkinter to place and size widgets with pack, grid, and place, and learn paddings including padx, pady, ipadx, ipady.
Demonstrate the pack function in Tkinter by arranging widgets side by side or stacked, using fill, expand, and side options to control alignment, padding, and label colors.
Explore using the grid layout in Tkinter to arrange labels and color-filled entries in a two-dimensional grid, with columns, rows, and sunken relief options.
Explore how Tkinter's geometry managers control layout with the pack method, including options like fill, expand, and side, to arrange frames and widgets in a window.
Explore Tkinter layout and geometry management by comparing place, pack, and grid; learn absolute positioning with the place manager and coordinate-based widget placement.
Learn to build a Tkinter window that displays books with title and author by creating frames, labels, and entry widgets, and switch to a multi-line title using a text widget.
Create a Tkinter button and demonstrate using many options, including text, background and foreground colors, active colors, size, border, font, relief styles, and underline specific letters via index.
Explore configuring Tkinter buttons with underline, padding, and state options, then customize fonts (family, size, bold) and colors, and apply these settings to other widgets.
Explore Tkinter layout management by experimenting with pack, grid, and place to create three colored frames in the main window, adjusting height, width, weight, and expansion.
Explore Tkinter grid manager to place widgets by rows and columns, using columnspan and padding, then compare with the place manager for absolute x, y positioning on a login page.
Explore the Tkinter frame widget as a container to group and organize widgets, configure frame options like background and relief, and place buttons on frames using pack geometry.
Explore the Tkinter Listbox widget, its select modes (browse, single, multiple, extended), insertion and deletion with end and active indices, and practical examples.
Learn a Tkinter ListBox example that links selections to a callback via a button widget, adds items with insert, and uses the selection function to show chosen indices.
Explore creating and manipulating a Tkinter listbox in Python, including populating with values, inserting at specific indices, deleting items by index, and handling item selection.
Explore Tkinter listbox operations, including inserting items, retrieving values with get, managing active selection, and reading the selected item on click events in Python GUI development.
Learn to build a Tkinter menu button, attach a menu, and populate it with check button items linked to variables; understand starting the menu from index zero.
Learn how to build the Tkinter menu widget with top level, pop up, and pull down menus, add submenus and cascade them into file, edit, and help menus.
Master the Tkinter message widget to display multiline text with flexible font options, colors, and justification, and compare it to the label widget while composing and configuring the widget.
Learn to use the messagebox widget to display info, warning, and question prompts with options like yes/no and ok/cancel, and respond to user choices.
Learn how to use the Tkinter radio button widget to implement multiple choice selections, with a shared control variable, button values, and a label that shows the selected option.
Learn to create vertical and horizontal tkinter scale widgets, configure range with from and to, use get and set methods, and display the selected value with a label and button.
Create and configure vertical and horizontal Tkinter scrollbars to scroll content in widgets such as listbox, canvas, and text; attach with command bindings and expand options, then explore top-level windows.
Create and manage multiple top level windows in Tkinter, each with a label and buttons to open or destroy windows, and arrange them with specific geometry.
Discover the tkinter paned window widget, a resizable container for multiple panes, and explore the spinvox widget with its options, values, and basic operations through practical examples.
Explore the Tkinter label frame widget as a container to group related widgets, create labeled sections for positive and negative comments, and combine labels, buttons, entries, scales, and check buttons.
Learn to use the Tkinter scrollbar widget to add vertical and horizontal scrolling to widgets like Listbox and Canvas, including orientation, commands, and linking the scrollbar to the target widget.
Design a Tkinter calculator interface by building a frame, input field, and button grid, implementing clear, divide, and equals functions while focusing on layout and geometry.
Learn to build a functional calculator app in Python using Tkinter by wiring number and operation buttons, a display entry, and a grid layout with zero and equals handling.
Create a fully functional calculator in tkinter using an entry widget for input, an evaluate function to compute expressions, and a clear function to reset the display.
Develop a Tkinter-based calculator app by arranging a 3x3 numeric grid and operation buttons, implementing input and evaluation functions, fixing a naming conflict, and validating simple expressions.
Build a Tkinter loan calculator using labels, entry widgets, and a compute button to output monthly emi and total payment from loan amount, annual interest, and years.
Define compute payment and get monthly payment functions in a Tkinter loan calculator to compute the monthly emi and total payment from loan amount, annual interest rate, and years.
Develop a Tkinter age calculator that computes exact age in years, months, and days from birth and current dates. Implement input fields, clear all, and empty-entry validation.
Build an age calculator app in Python with Tkinter that computes day, month, and year differences by subtracting birth date from given date, handling month-lengths and year borrow adjustments.
Build an age calculator app in Tkinter with birth date and current date inputs, labeled day month year fields, a green window, blue labels, and calculate and clear buttons.
Build a Tkinter age calculator app by arranging labels, entries, and buttons with grid, validating inputs, and computing age in years, months, and days.
Explore how percentiles delimit the position of a score within a data set, and learn weighted-mean based methods to compute percentiles, deciles, and quartiles using ordered data.
Build a percentile calculator app using Tkinter in Python by capturing rank and total participants, computing percentile with a simple formula rounded to three decimals, and displaying the result.
Build and validate a percentile calculator app in Tkinter, demonstrating that a value equals the 99th percentile in a 10,000 data set ordered ascending.
Learn to build a compound interest calculator app using Tkinter in Python, handling principal, rate, and time inputs with a calculate and clear workflow.
A warm welcome to the Python GUI Development with Tkinter course by Uplatz.
Python programming suite provides a large number of GUI frameworks (or toolkits), from Tkinter (traditionally bundled with Python, using Tk) to a number of other cross-platform solutions, as well as bindings to platform-specific (native) technologies.
Python supports various options for developing graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Most important are listed below.
Tkinter − Tkinter is the Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit shipped with Python.
wxPython − This is an open-source Python interface for wxWindows.
JPython − JPython is a Python port for Java which gives Python scripts seamless access to Java class libraries on the local machine.
In summary, Python has a lot of GUI frameworks, but Tkinter is the only framework which is built into the Python standard library. Tkinter has several strengths. It’s cross-platform, so the same code works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Visual elements are rendered using native operating system elements, so applications built with Tkinter look like they belong on the platform where they’re run.
Tkinter is lightweight and relatively painless to use compared to other frameworks. This makes it a compelling choice for building GUI applications in Python, especially for applications where a modern sheen is unnecessary, and the top priority is to build something that’s functional and cross-platform quickly.
Uplatz provides this comprehensive training on GUI Programming in Python with Tkinter. The Python GUI Programming course covers the basics of Tkinter, programming with Tkinter, concept of GUI programming, using Tkinter for GUI programming, creating and managing Tkinter widgets, creating useful apps using Tkinter, and more.
Course Objectives
Get started with Tkinter with a basic application
Work with widgets, such as buttons and text boxes
Control your application layout with geometry managers
Make your applications interactive by associating button clicks to Python functions
Tkinter Programming
Tkinter is the standard GUI library for Python. Python when combined with Tkinter provides a fast and easy way to create GUI applications. Tkinter provides a powerful object-oriented interface to the Tk GUI toolkit.
Creating a GUI application using Tkinter is an easy task. The following steps need to be followed:
Import the Tkinter module.
Create the GUI application main window.
Add one or more of the above-mentioned widgets to the GUI application.
Enter the main event loop to take action against each event triggered by the user.
Tkinter Widgets
Tkinter provides various controls, such as buttons, labels and text boxes used in a GUI application. These controls are commonly called widgets.
There are currently 15 types of widgets in Tkinter.
Python GUI Development with Tkinter - Course Curriculum
1. TKINTER BASICS
2. TKINTER PROGRAMMING
3. GUI PROGRAMMING
4. TKINTER WIDGETS
TKINTER LISTBOX
TKINTER BUTTON
TKINTER CHECKBUTTON
TKINTER ENTRY
TKINTER FRAME
TKINTER MENUBUTTON
TKINTER MENU WIDGET
TKINTER MESSAGE WIDGET
TKINTER MESSAGEBOX WIDGET
TKINTER RADIOBUTTON WIDGET
TKINTER SCALE WIDGET
TKINTER SCROLLBAR WIDGET
TKINTER TEXT
TKINTER TOPLEVEL WIDGET
TKINTER SPINBOX
TKINTER PANEDWINDOW
TKINTER LABELFRAME
TKINTER tkMESSAGEBOX
TKINTER PANEDWINDOW WIDGET
TKINTER LABELFRAME WIDGET
TKINTER SCROLLBAR WIDGET
5. GEOMETRY MANAGEMENT
TKINTER pack() METHOD
TKINTER grid() METHOD
TKINTER place() METHOD
6. CALCULATOR APP USING TKINTER
7. AGE CALCULATOR APP
8. PERCENTILE CALCULATOR APP
9. COMPOUND INTEREST CALCULATOR APP