1.. _tkinter: 2 3********************************* 4Graphical User Interfaces with Tk 5********************************* 6 7.. index:: 8 single: GUI 9 single: Graphical User Interface 10 single: Tkinter 11 single: Tk 12 13Tk/Tcl has long been an integral part of Python. It provides a robust and 14platform independent windowing toolkit, that is available to Python programmers 15using the :mod:`tkinter` package, and its extension, the :mod:`tkinter.ttk` module. 16 17The :mod:`tkinter` package is a thin object-oriented layer on top of Tcl/Tk. To 18use :mod:`tkinter`, you don't need to write Tcl code, but you will need to 19consult the Tk documentation, and occasionally the Tcl documentation. 20:mod:`tkinter` is a set of wrappers that implement the Tk widgets as Python 21classes. 22 23:mod:`tkinter`'s chief virtues are that it is fast, and that it usually comes 24bundled with Python. Although its standard documentation is weak, good 25material is available, which includes: references, tutorials, a book and 26others. :mod:`tkinter` is also famous for having an outdated look and feel, 27which has been vastly improved in Tk 8.5. Nevertheless, there are many other 28GUI libraries that you could be interested in. The Python wiki lists several 29alternative `GUI frameworks and tools <https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`_. 30 31.. toctree:: 32 33 tkinter.rst 34 tkinter.colorchooser.rst 35 tkinter.font.rst 36 dialog.rst 37 tkinter.messagebox.rst 38 tkinter.scrolledtext.rst 39 tkinter.dnd.rst 40 tkinter.ttk.rst 41 idle.rst 42 43.. Other sections I have in mind are 44 Tkinter internals 45 Freezing Tkinter applications 46