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Canvas Widget

Explore how to create and customize the Canvas widget in Tkinter to draw shapes such as lines, ovals, and arcs. This lesson helps you understand drawing methods and how to build graphical elements in Python desktop applications.

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The Canvas widget provides a rectangular area for drawing pictures, graphs, shapes, or placing other widgets.

Now, let’s see how to create the Canvas widget in Tkinter.

Creating a Canvas widget

The following is the syntax of creating a Canvas widget:

Python 3.8
myCanvas = tk.Canvas( parent , options )

Here, parent stands for the parent window or frame where we will place the canvas. We can also use several options like height ...