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problem defining TK() or ttk, what to uses?
I have very simple questions. Can I work with both tk() and ttk, or just one of them?'
I used all the combinations and still getting the same error:
NameError: name 'tkinter' is not defined.
This is ...
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in strawberry perl 5.40.0.1 error when try to install TK
I am trying to install the Tk module on Strawberry Perl 5.40.0.1, but I keep getting a fatal error during the installation.
Here is the procedure I used:
Opened a Strawberry Perl shell.
Ran the ...
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Make tk_messageBox topmost
A simple question (Windows 10) .. I have short Wish script that immediately withdraws the main window and runs in the background. Upon finding a certain condition existing, pops up a tk_messageBox, ...
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How do I split an animated gif into its individual images in Tcl/tk 8.4 or 8.6 with pure Tcl/Tk only
I'm working on some compatibility stuff with my freeware hurricane
tracker, JStrack, which has been based on Tcl/Tk 8.4 for a LONG time
(didn't know 8.6 was 100% backwards compatible, so now swapping ...
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tcl - tk entry and text box delete
I have a small gui with a combobox, two entry widgets, .main_frame.login_data and .main_frame.password, and a text widget, .box.notes_box. There's a bind on the combobox that runs this stuff:
bind ...
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Why do I need a empty window.attributes() to create a transparent window using tkinter (in python)?
When I create a transparent window with tkinter in python I need to start with a empty window.attributes() call.Otherwise it doesn't become transparent. Is this a bug or wanted behavior ?
Example code:...
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Error messages showed up during open a input file with pwgui software
It keep shows following message everytime i try to open a Quantum Espresso input file with PWgui software (QEs gui).
==================================================
PWgui version : 7.2
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PWGUI ...
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wait until the window is the right size before executing my function
I need to execute a function as soon as my window changes size, this function is quite consuming like this :
set originalWidth 500
set originalHeight 500
bind .l <Configure> [list procConfig %W ...
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ImageTk module fails
I'm trying to use the pillow package for Python in my Visual Studio Code IDE
But it seems like the ImageTk module is not working properly.
Every time I run the script it tells me that there is an ...
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Perl Tk::Dialog text width not matching dialog width
I am using Perl with Tk::Dialog.
I can't for the life of me work out how to set the width of the text box inside the dialog box to the width of the text it contains.
Failed attempt:
use strict;
use ...
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The button goes under the search frame, Tkinter
I trying to do a search frame, but when I added the button, It goes under the frame of the search, appears, and then disappears fast. In the search entry, when I run the code, it appears, and when I ...
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Create a time chart in Ruby with Tk::Tcllib::Plotchart::Timechart
I'm going to create a time chart in Ruby with the class Tk::Tcllib::Plotchart::Timechart for a statistic data, which value is generated along with the time. However it doesn't work for me. I've tried ...
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Remove internal border inside a Text widget
Is it possible to remove the border around between the tkinter.Text widget and the background colour of a tag inside it? I set both the border width and highlightthickness to 0 but the border is still ...
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Building a class to apply styling and behavior to targeted tkinter widgets and can't get them to behave together
I wanted a button with a bit more on it's face, a fancy button, and ended up building a FancyButton class that will wrap a "surface" defined by tkinter widgets in a series of frames and ...
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ttkthemes doesn't theme entire window when applied to root
None of the themes I've tried in ttkthemes will theme the entire window. I apply the theme to the root/self and it will only theme text/buttons
Screenshots:
I was expecting the window to fill the ...
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How to add anonymous Checkboxes (or anything else) in ctkinter?
So recently I was creating an app that you can add Checkboxes to, and they were your works to do (to do list app), so I wanted to manage the Checkboxes that were added, and because they don't have ...
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Why can't I make my app's screen responsive even by increasing ´self.geometry("1000x700")´?
Here's an image of the app:
I'm trying to make all the options visible, however even increasing the dimensions the screen doesn't enlarge and doesn't solve the problem
class App(tk.Tk):
def ...
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Cannot remove widget after activating checkbox in Python Tkinter
I am working on my pet-project. Under the working on GUI part, I faced a problem. I want to add a new widget after clicking the checkbox the first time, and on the second click, this widget should be ...
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how is it possible that "winfo width $w" provides a width that is different from "$w cget -width" ? which one is the real width displayed?
in TCL TK I have a huge gui that I'm trying to explore. using a tcl procedure that does the exploration, I noticed that winfo and cget provides différents information for width parameter of widgets. ...
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TCL can't modify size of windows
I don't succeed to modify the size of the main windows of my TCL TK GUI :
But if I type :
package require BWidget
MainFrame .main \
-textvariable status \
-progressvar ...
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tkinter and Scaling Factors on Linux
I am developing a cross-platform GUI using tkinter (for pydiode). I want the GUI to scale properly on 4K screens. Currently, it works well on macOS, but I'm having difficulty on Linux (Debian).
The ...
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On Windws, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and every time I install Python, I get ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_tkinter'
On Ubuntu 24.04, Here is the Error I get:
[I] /home/sporty~> pyenv install 3.12.2
Downloading Python-3.12.2.tar.xz...
-> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.2/Python-3.12.2.tar.xz
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Reusing grid coordinates in perl Tk
I have an application that is reading data off a file system and dynamically creating widgets in a 3x3 grid based on the contents of the files. If I need to replace one of the widgets (or lack of) ...
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using the current locale/language in a Tcl/Tk application on macOS
We are building an application in Tcl/Tk.
Because of our international user base, we implemented i18n/l10n using gettext, which works nicely.
Mostly.
On macOS, some of the menu items are provided by ...
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Installing Tk on Strawberry Perl leads to compiler errors
I am running Strawberry Perl 5, version 38, subversion 0 (v5.38.0) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
I downloaded the latest version from CPAN (Tk-804.036) and tried
perl makefile.pl
but got a number ...
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How can I make the background of this Python/Tk Treeview table all dark?
I'm preparing to write a user interface for a REST interface and I've never used Python/Tk before. I've written a program which shows files in the current folder for now while I figure out the look ...
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tcl scrollbar no more works when I remove the frames inside the canva that has the scrollbar
I use the following code to have a scrollbar that works great :
(thanks : How to add a scrollbar to tcl frame)
ttk::frame .frAlles
# create canvas with scrollbars
canvas .frAlles.c -width 400 -height ...
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in TCL/TK how to create a "blocking" windows with scrollbar that will contains a hundred of check button
I read documentation but I am still unable to guess the correct strategy because I don't find "high level" documentation that could help so I reuse stuff without knowing if it is the ...
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TCL / TK script
I want to run the script .tcl in the terminal.
I downloaded TCL from and I checked it with the line below, at which a window appears as in the photo.
% C:\ActiveTcl\bin\wish
The script starts with ...
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Tkinter event loop can't process some key combinations when use <KeyPress> event
Here is the code from another question, which demonstrates the problem very well (I just found it when I was looking for solution for my problem).
So, when you press some specific key combination, the ...
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Getting actual dimensions of label tcl/tk widget
I try to display some data stored in array with a table-like view.
To do this, I loop through the array and retrieve relevant data into labels which are then used as "table cells".
Each &...
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event generate all - ends in "_tkinter.TclError: bad window name/identifier all"
So while I didn't found a hint in the docs that event generate all <<Custom>> should work. I'm a bit surprised it doesn't.
Everything connected to events is handled by bindtags and widgets ...
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Tcl/TK: how to prevent screen tearing?
I am messing around with canvases in TK, and have this small example of a black rectangle that follows the cursor:
package require Tk
package require Thread
ttk::frame .c
canvas .c.card
.c.card create ...
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I want to update a Frame/push a variable of an image to a existing Frame but it doesn't update
import cv2 as cv
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk
from MakeImageList import *
from PIL import Image,ImageTk
class mainFrameClass(tk.Tk):
def __init__(self,*args, **kwargs) :
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How do I calculate the rectangles of the window decoration / taskbar / titlebar in tkinter
Many questions on this site asking about the height of the titlebar or the taskbar in tkinter.
Often is the answer simply no or there are platform specific calls to the window-manager.
So this ...
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how can i work with grids and layouts in tkinter and ctk
so i was learning the ctk module and reached a dead end i searched so much for this and i didnt get a awnser
heres my question:
how can i stick the search button to the entry and make other things ...
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ttk::progressbar can't be disabled?
Testing this ( 8.6.11 - Win7 32 )
package require Tk
set p [ttk::progressbar .progreso -orient horizontal -mode indeterminate ]
set b [ttk::button .botonc -text "Disable bar ?" -command {$p ...
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How do I change the background color of the non-completed part of ttk::progressBar
I am using base Tk widgets which take the default colors of X11 (old-style).
However, I want to also use ttk::progressBar. I am trying to have the widget have a certain background color.
I know I can ...
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How to align labels to the left and allow resizing in TCL/TK
I want to vertically stack a set of labels, and I would like them to be aligned to the left.
I have tried this:
#!/usr/bin/env tclsh
package require Tk
# Initialize global counter
set widgetCounter ...
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Tk_PhotoPutBlock does not render my svg file correctly
I'm trying to implement this example written in C with C Tk API.
My objective is to try to use this library to transform an svg file into a photo Tk to be read in frame Tk. Below is my svg file :
<...
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Why do ttk widgets cause Tcl/Tk programs to read /etc/passwd and /etc/nsswitch.conf?
Below is a simple Tcl/Tk GUI program that opens a window and displays the word "Hello" in the window. The filename of the script is "hello.tk".
#!/bin/sh
# The next line is ...
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Get length of line on tkinter.canvas in inches (Mac OS)
I'm currently running Mac OS Sonoma 14.2.1 and I'm trying to set up a tkinter canvas which is scaled to "actual" real-life size. I.e., if I draw a line between any two points on the canvas, ...
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how to toggle different buttons with same function on CustomTkinter
I'm trying to create a grid of buttons that toogle or at least change once pressed.
But I couldn't manage to diferenciate each button to change their parameters through self.button.config()
Or even ...
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How to get the tk/tcl libraries and .h files (win)
I want to use the C++/Tk library for a project.(https://cpptk.sourceforge.net/index.html)
I managed to setup the boost library but I still need the tcl and tk libraries and tcl.h and tk.h for it. (...
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Switching between Class Frames Tkinter
Main/Parent Class
class tkinterApp(tk.Tk): #Root Window
def __init__(self):
#main set up
super().__init__()
self.geometry("700x700")
self.title('Wuiz')
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My buttons keep having white borders, how do I fix this?
This is my code. Whenever I click and hold on a button, the border is always white. Does anyone know why? This is also python 11.6.
class WelcomeScreen(tk.Frame):
def __init__(self, master):
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nodgui and SBCL(?): How to avoid the type error "The value NIL is not of type STREAM when binding STREAM" right from the beginning?
Always when I start to try packages for Common Lisp GUI programming I encounter problems at a very early stage. I'm using SBCL 2.1.1 and 2.3.8 with Debian "Bullseye" and currently, I want to ...
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How can I bind right-mouse-click event to proc in Tcl?
I am working on linux based gui-tool.
I have the code below. (tcl script)
proc Kuser {} {
echo "AAA"
}
proc getxy_of_mouse_pointer {} {
gui_mouse_tool -window Layout.1 -start ...
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How can I copy and paste variable in tcl into vi-editor using middle mousewheel click?
[proc_selProc.tcl]
proc selProc {str offset count} {
return [string range $str $offset [expr {$offset + $count -1}]]
}
set myVar Hello
selection handle -selection . [list selproc $myVar]
selection ...
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tk.TopLevel is making two windows appear, but why?
The code below generates my main program (frmMain), which sometimes opens forms. But each time I open a form, the code below makes TWO forms open, the proper form, and one extra one, which is blank. ...
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