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Why should I set the parent of a widget to the canvas when placing it as window item?
Why does the "tk-toolkit" treat the window item differently when the parent is not canvas?
When distributing events for example:
import tkinter as tk
def enter_event(event):
print(f'...
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Get the HMENU of a tk Menu on Windows
I'd like to get the HMENU of a tk Menu for setting its background color using the SetMenuInfo function from the Windows API (setting it using configure() only affects the menu items' background, but ...
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tkinter, Selecting multiple using arrows+shift (or ctrl)
I'm trying to be able to select multiple entries in a tkinter GUI, the same way you can in fileExplorer.
I can select multiple using shift+click, and ctrl+click, but either+arrows don't work.
I did ...
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How to I get the positions for the corners of a turtle screen embeded in a tkinter canvas
I'm trying to draw a grid in the turtle, but doing so requires knowing the positions of the corners of the screen.
turtle.goto(0, 0) does not move the turtle to the middle of the screen; instead, it ...
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Flow Layout with customtkinter adds extra padding between widgets [closed]
I am trying to implement a flow layout in a ScrollableFrame from customtkinter.
Specifically, instead of managing letters, the layout needs to manage small Frames in which names are written.
I have to ...
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tkinter TclError After Update to Fedora 43
A few years back I hacked together a tk script to listen for events from frigate and show the camera feed for a few seconds when someone was at the door. It worked without much effort until I updated ...
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Python Tkinter "tag mechanism" broken - _tkinter.TclError: invalid boolean operator in tag search expression
The following [mre]:
import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
cnvs = tk.Canvas(root)
cnvs.pack()
labl = tk.Label(cnvs, text='hello world')
laid = cnvs.create_window(0,0,window=labl,anchor='nw', tags=str(...
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Child widgets not shown correctly if parent Frame is gridded later
I have an application that divides the main window in two:
Left: a canvas, where a map will be displayed
Right: a frame, where several other frames will share space and one of them will be shown ...
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Is there a tkinter editor suitable for beginners
I am a newbie in Python. My assignment requires me to use a graphical interface, and I plan to use tkinter for this purpose. However, I find manually typing code too complicated. Could any expert ...
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How to destroy Tkinter windows from external script?
I have a script called GUI running two tkinter windows and I've been able to kill my program from within the script by creating a function for it
def gui_kill():
root.destroy()
win.destroy()
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dateentry Tkcalendar change the month and year repeatedly?
I'm using DateEntry from tkcalendar. The problem is that I can only change the month and year the first time. When I try to change the year or month a second time, the calendar immediately disappears. ...
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Cannot get an IntVar object from one tkinter script called by a function to the script which calls it
I'm trying to have an IntVar object move from one script to another via a function that calls the second script when the toplevel window created in the second script is destroyed
main script:
from ...
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Tkinter window shows "Not Responding" while running my text-to-speech code (how do I prevent the GUI from freezing?)
I’m making a GUI application in Python using Tkinter that reads text out loud from PDF, DOCX, TXT, and images using gTTS.
The program works, but sometimes Tkinter window becomes unresponsive and shows ...
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Image replacing/deleting other image in tkinter
When I have 2 images loaded in tkinter even though they are in a different position, only one of them shows up so I assume that one of them is deleting/replacing each other. how do i fix it?
import ...
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How to fix Tkinter program shrinking when using MSS library to screenshot
Whenever I'm using mss I'm trying to take a screenshot of part of my program in which I would create an array of x and y values of nodes and find the minimum and maximums of those x, y values then ...