GUI Primer

There are a lot of articles in Category GUI .

This page aims to be a "newbie-friendly"-pointer to the most essential topics.

Tcl - the "tool-command-language". All the elements for programming (but console-only).

Tk - the "toolkit", an extension to tcl, for graphics, GUI, etc.

• General
• Layout:
  • Frame
  • Layout-Managers (place, pack, grid)
• Text- and entry - Fields
• Buttons:
  • Push-Buttons,
  • checkboxes
  • radiobuttons
• Canvas
• graphic elements:
  • text, line, rect, oval, image, etc.
  • Labels
• Menu
• Control:
  • bind

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Pages:

• m+ - Simple menu-system
• Menus made easy
• Programs with a menu:
  • iKey: a tiny multilingual keyboard - program with a tiny menu
  • Advent Wreath - small menu, with help&about, and radio-buttons for options
  • Ad Break Timer
  • Black Box
  • ...

• Grid-Demos - layouts arranged in a grid, done with pack and grid
• Simple Canvas Demo - put text, lines, rect, curve on a canvas

• Simple Entry Demo - entry-fields for integers, calculate sum and product
• A little value dialog - custom dialog - a toplevel that prompts for a value
• Another little value dialog - inputbox to enter a textstring
• IP Calculator GUI - entry-fields for IP-addresses / uses ttk
• Phone book example using Metakit - short and simple "database" program:
  Entry-fields for name and phone, metakit-textfile for storage, treeview with scrollbar to show the data.
• Jeff Gosnell - Examples and free-to-use scripts - proc LogOnDisplay : dialog for username + password

• 7GUIs - a sequence of mini-applications, each highlighting a useful GUI pattern in a short implementation
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See also

• Tk-Demos - forms.tcl : Simple entry-form for name, address, phone etc.
  But it is hard to see "the useful code", with all the surrounding demo-code.
• TkDocs