I want to create a system tray for my application using python tkinter.
can anyone let me know how can I do the same using python tkinter?
No, I don't think python Tkinter can do it alone. You'll probably need to install some tk extension, which will be platform-dependant and hard to use from python's bindings.
For completeness, on gtk you'd use gtk.StatusIcon
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I wanna know, Is it possible to create GUI in python without using tkinter?
Tk isn't technically making the GUI, it's delegating to a C library; and that's exactly what you can do too. For simplicity however, it's pretty much standard to use TkInter, or some other framework (i recommend PySimpleGUI) that takes care of the Tk interaction for you
easygui is the easiest GUI python that I have used. Designs are prebuilt for you already. Examples of easygui can. be found here https://pypi.org/project/easygui/
You can also use Flask where the frontend will be the web browser.
Tcl/Tk is an external library although it comes as part of the standard python install and it is an external library. you can use other framework to do that .
Fundamentally, Python can’t talk to any GUI system without an external module. Since the most fundamental GUI libraries on any platform are usually C-based, that requires, at minimum, importing a library like ctypes which itself is minimal and allows you to load system GUI libraries (in dlls or delis, depending on your platform).It is possible, in theory at least, to drive a GUI solely from ctypes, but it’s not very practical .
Is it possible, using tkinter, to create a modern menu with a divider on the left for icons?
It was introduced in Windows Vista, if I'm not mistaken.
Tkinter can not provide native looking windows. If you're looking to make a more modern program, I'd suggest using wxPython or PyQt.
You could probably just use the menu from either and attach it to a Tk window somehow, but it's not recommended.
I am a beginner programmer and I've been programming for about 2 months now. It crossed my mind that most courses and tutorials teach python by creating small apps in a python terminal or shell or something.
Is it possible to create a windowed application in python without using any libraries or frameworks other than the ones that come with python?
Thanks in advance
The tkinter package (“Tk interface”) is the standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit. Both Tk and tkinter are available on most Unix platforms, as well as on Windows systems.
https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/tkinter.html
I googled and search stackoverflow before asking this question
Answers that I don't expect:
wxWidgets is the best Python GUIUse TkInter (BIM) for GUI development.
Q. How to make a GUI without using any module/library? i.e make a GUI from scratch. Modules like tkinter not allowed.
I've made several GUIs from scratch using SDL which is a low level drawing library. The advantage of doing that is that it will look exactly the same on any platform down to the pixel and you can get it to work on embedded systems. Full screen GUIs are really easy too. Disadvantages are that it is a lot of work.
In python the pygame library wraps SDL so you would use that, and in fact that is how I made the GUI for a lab instrument which had a large colour LCD screen. The controller ran linux, but not X-windows.
pygame is an extra library, yes, but I can't think of a way of making a GUI with only what python provides.
The easiest GUI to make without "module/library" is a web-based one. I.e. generate HTML with Javascript from your Python code, and let the Javascript interact via AJAX with your Python app. This can be implemented without too much effort with just the standard Python library (and some JS code, of course), or with modules that don't require "heavy" installation of platform-specific extensions.
I am making programs that solve and show work for math problems. I would like to add a GUI, and I think wxPython will be best. If I use wxPython for the GUI, will the end user need wxPython on their computer in order to use the program with the GUI? If not, what would should I use?
These apps will be used on mostly Windows, but I would also like them to work on Macs and Linux. I'm not for sure if any Python GUI elements will work on Android through SL4A, but if you know any, that would be appreciated.
Also, I know Tkinter is bundled with Python, but is it a dying technique, as I have read?
Thanks!
There are tools for packaging a python program and its libraries into an executable that can run on its own. I keep this list handy:
http://www.freehackers.org/Packaging_a_python_program
I'm sure at least one of those tools will handle wxPython, because I did it a few years ago. (Sorry, but I don't remember which one.)
Yes, tkinter's popularity has been waning for years. See this question for some more options:
higher level Python GUI toolkit, e.g. pass dict for TreeView/Grid
If your software is mostly about the complicated processing, with a fairly simple UI, tkinter is probably fine
I am using cx_freeze for this without any problems. Worked for me on Windows and Linux.
Tkinter comes with Python, so it can be handier in some respects just because of that. On the other hand, wxPython uses the native widgets of the OS (which has it's own set of pros and cons). I personally prefer wxPython. But no, Tkinter is not dead to my knowledge.
You can use py2exe to bundle up your app on Windows or you could use cx_freeze or bb_freeze. There's also PyInstaller, which I think can create some kind of Linux bundle, but the docs are kind of confusing. For Mac, see py2app.
I'm not aware of any specific Python GUI toolkits for Android.
PyInstaller.
install and run.
cmd -> python pyinstaller.py NAMEOFSCRIPT.py --onefile --noconsole.
easy as 123.