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Tkinter – How to create colored lines based on length?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 26-Mar-2026 2K+ Views

Tkinter Canvas widget is one of the versatile widgets which is generally used to draw shapes, arcs, objects, display images or any content. The objects inside the Canvas widget can be modified as well as configured using the configure() method or within the constructor by providing values to the properties. To create lines on a Canvas widget, you can use the create_line(x1, y1, x2, y2, fill="color", width, **options) method. The coordinates x1, y1 define the starting point and x2, y2 define the ending point of the line. The distance between these points determines the length of the line. ...

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How to stop copy, paste, and backspace in text widget in tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 26-Mar-2026 822 Views

The Text widget in tkinter accepts multiline user input and supports various operations like copying, pasting, and deleting text. Sometimes you may need to disable these shortcuts for security or user interface reasons. To disable copy, paste, and backspace operations in a Text widget, you need to bind specific key events to event handlers that return 'break'. This prevents the default behavior from executing. Syntax text_widget.bind('', lambda event: 'break') Example Here's how to disable copy (Ctrl+C), paste (Ctrl+V), and backspace operations ? # Import the required library from tkinter import * ...

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How to get the index of selected option in Tkinter Combobox?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 26-Mar-2026 11K+ Views

The Tkinter Combobox widget allows you to create dropdown lists where users can select items. To get the index of the selected option, you can use the current() method, which returns the zero-based index of the selected item. Syntax combobox.current() The current() method returns an integer representing the index position of the selected item in the combobox values list. Example Here's a complete example that demonstrates how to get the index of selected option in a Tkinter Combobox ? import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk # Create main ...

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How to get an Entry box within a Messagebox in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 26-Mar-2026 8K+ Views

Tkinter's messagebox library provides various dialog functions, but none directly combine a message with an entry field. To create an entry box within a messagebox-like dialog, you can use the askstring function from tkinter.simpledialog. This creates a simple dialog window that prompts the user for text input. Using askstring() Method The askstring() function takes two main parameters: the dialog title and the prompt message displayed above the entry field ? # Import the required library from tkinter import * from tkinter.simpledialog import askstring from tkinter.messagebox import showinfo # Create an instance of tkinter frame and ...

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Printing a list to a Tkinter Text widget

Gaurav Leekha
Gaurav Leekha
Updated on 26-Mar-2026 10K+ Views

When creating a graphical user interface (GUI) in Python with Tkinter, it's common to want to display data in a user-friendly format. One way to do this is to print a list of items to a Tkinter Text widget, which allows you to display the list with each item on a separate line. In this article, we'll cover how to print a list to a Tkinter Text widget and some tips for formatting the output. Creating a Tkinter Text Widget Before we can print a list to a Tkinter Text widget, we need to create the widget itself. ...

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How to attach a vertical scrollbar to a Treeview using Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 26-Mar-2026 4K+ Views

The Treeview widget in Tkinter displays hierarchical data in a table format with columns. When displaying large datasets, a vertical scrollbar becomes essential for navigation. This tutorial shows how to attach a vertical scrollbar to a Treeview widget. Basic Treeview with Scrollbar To add a scrollbar, create a Scrollbar widget and link it to the Treeview using yscrollcommand and command properties − import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk # Create main window root = tk.Tk() root.title("Treeview with Scrollbar") root.geometry("500x300") # Create Treeview widget tree = ttk.Treeview(root, columns=("Name", "Age"), show="headings", height=6) tree.heading("#1", text="Name") ...

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How to disable multiselection on Treeview in tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 26-Mar-2026 2K+ Views

The Treeview widget displays hierarchical data in columns and rows. By default, it allows multiple item selection, but you can disable this by setting selectmode="browse" to allow only single selection. Syntax ttk.Treeview(parent, selectmode="browse", **options) Parameters The selectmode parameter accepts these values − "extended" − Default mode, allows multiple selection "browse" − Single selection mode "none" − Disables all selection Example Here's how to create a Treeview with single selection mode − # Import the required libraries from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk # Create ...

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How to clear the text field part of ttk.Combobox in tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 26-Mar-2026 5K+ Views

The Combobox widget is a versatile tkinter widget that creates a dropdown list containing selectable values. When you need to clear the selected text from a combobox, you can use the set('') method to reset it to an empty state. Basic Syntax To clear a combobox text field ? combobox_widget.set('') Complete Example Here's a working example that demonstrates how to clear a combobox using a button ? # Import the required libraries from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk # Create an instance of tkinter frame or window win ...

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How do I open a website in a Tkinter window?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 26-Mar-2026 5K+ Views

Tkinter offers many built-in functions and methods to help construct user-friendly applications. To open a webpage in a Tkinter window, you can use the pywebview library, which allows users to view HTML content in a native GUI window. Installing pywebview First, install the pywebview library using pip ? pip install pywebview Basic Implementation To create a window that displays web content, use the create_window() method to specify the window title and URL, then call webview.start() to launch the window ? import tkinter as tk import webview # Create an instance ...

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Creating a LabelFrame inside a Tkinter Canvas

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 26-Mar-2026 2K+ Views

Tkinter provides many built-in widgets for creating desktop applications. The LabelFrame widget creates a container with a labeled border, while Canvas provides a drawing surface. You can combine these by placing a LabelFrame inside a Canvas widget. A LabelFrame widget has two main components: The Title Bar − displays the label text at the top border The Content Area − contains child widgets like labels, buttons, or images Basic LabelFrame in Canvas Here's how to create a LabelFrame inside a Canvas widget ? from tkinter import * # Create main window ...

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