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Creating Widgets

Explore how to create and arrange fundamental widgets in Tkinter, including buttons, labels, text entries, and checkboxes. Understand widget options and learn to build simple GUI components to interact with users in Python applications.

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Widgets in Tkinter

There are fifteen types of widgets in Tkinter, and each has many options, indicated with option=value. This lesson will cover only the most common types and options. For more detail, the official Python docs for Tkinter is an excellent reference.

In the following widget example, we will assume that the window is called top.

  • fr = Frame(parent, option, ...)

    • This is a container for widgets. The
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