Before actually using GUI dialogues, consider using console prompts. Quite often you can get away with simple “y/n?” prompts, which in bash you achieve via the read command.. read -p “Do something? “; if [ $REPLY == “y” ]; then echo yay; fi If console prompt’s just won’t cut it, Zenity is really easy to … Read more
Though you’re running a subsidiary event loop (really don’t do that!) it still shares the same registry of event handlers as the outer loop, so events coming in are handled in the inner loop just as in the outer one. (There’s a common piece of low-level event handling code that reaches deep into the OS … Read more
In a tkinter application, StringVar (as well as IntVar, BooleanVar, and DoubleVar) are very rarely needed. The underlying tcl/tk interpreter provides special features for all of its variables, so these wrappers exist to take advantage of those features. The two big advantages that these variables have are: You can associate one variable with more than … Read more
To make a gridded layout have all columns have the same width, you’ve got to configure those columns to have the same weight and to be in the same uniform group. This configuration is associated with the master widget, not any of the contained widgets (because columns can contain many widgets, of course). In standard … Read more
Your code seems right, this is running for me on Windows 7 (Python 3.6): from tkinter import * root = Tk() canv = Canvas(root, width=80, height=80, bg=’white’) canv.grid(row=2, column=3) img = PhotoImage(file=”bll.jpg”) canv.create_image(20,20, anchor=NW, image=img) mainloop() resulting in this tkinter GUI: with this image as bll.jpg: (imgur converted it to bll.png but this is working … Read more
Basic knowlege about tkinters geometry management The geometry management of tkinter is characterized by this Quote here: By default a top-level window appears on the screen in its natural size, which is the one determined internally by its widgets and geometry managers. Toplevels Your Toplevel is the first question you should have to answer with: … Read more
On Windows Step One: Create a transparent icon using either an icon editor, or a site like rw-designer. Save it as transparent.ico. Step Two: from tkinter import * tk = Tk() tk.iconbitmap(default=”transparent.ico”) lab = Label(tk, text=”Window with transparent icon.”) lab.pack() tk.mainloop() On Unix Something similar, but using an xbm icon.