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How to have image and text in one button in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 25-Mar-2026 6K+ Views

In Tkinter, we can add both an image and text to a button using the compound property. By default, when you add an image to a button, it hides the text. The compound property allows us to control the relative positioning of the image and text. Understanding the Compound Property The compound property accepts these values ? LEFT − Image on the left, text on the right RIGHT − Image on the right, text on the left TOP − Image above the text BOTTOM − Image below the text CENTER − Image overlaps the text ...

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How to create a child window and communicate with parents in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 25-Mar-2026 3K+ Views

Tkinter provides powerful features for creating multi-window applications. You can create child windows (also called dialog boxes) that communicate with their parent windows to share data and respond to user interactions. A child window in Tkinter is created using the Toplevel() constructor, which creates a new top-level window that can interact with its parent window. Basic Child Window Creation Here's how to create a simple child window and pass data from parent to child ? import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk # Create main window root = tk.Tk() root.geometry("400x200") root.title("Parent Window") ...

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How to create a borderless fullscreen application using Python-3 Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 25-Mar-2026 3K+ Views

In order to make a Tkinter window borderless and full-screen, we can use the utility method attributes('-fullscreen', True). Tkinter windows can be configured using functions and methods defined in the Tkinter library. Another similar method Tkinter provides to make the application window full-screen is overrideredirect(True). This method can be invoked only if the application needs to resize in its defined width and height only. Method 1: Using attributes('-fullscreen', True) The attributes('-fullscreen', True) method creates a true fullscreen window that covers the entire screen including the taskbar ? # Import the required Libraries from tkinter import ...

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How to convert PDF files to Excel files using Python?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 25-Mar-2026 35K+ Views

Python provides several libraries for handling file conversions. In this article, we'll learn how to convert PDF files to Excel format using the tabula-py module. The tabula-py library is built on Java technology and can extract tabular data from PDF documents and convert it into pandas DataFrames. Prerequisites Before working with tabula-py, ensure you have Java installed on your system, as the library depends on Java for PDF processing. Installation Install the required package using pip − pip install tabula-py Basic Syntax The main functions we'll use are − ...

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How to add an image in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 25-Mar-2026 4K+ Views

Adding images to Tkinter applications enhances the user interface and provides visual appeal. You can display images using PIL (Pillow) library with PhotoImage and Label widgets. Basic Image Display Here's a simple example that displays a fixed image in a Tkinter window ? import tkinter as tk from PIL import Image, ImageTk # Create main window root = tk.Tk() root.title("Image Display") root.geometry("400x300") # Load and display image try: # Load image using PIL img = Image.open("sample.jpg") # ...

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How do you check if a widget has a focus in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 25-Mar-2026 4K+ Views

In Tkinter, you can check if a widget has focus using the focus_get() method. This method returns the widget object that currently has focus, allowing you to compare it with your target widget to determine if it's focused. Using focus_get() Method The focus_get() method is called on the root window and returns the currently focused widget object. You can compare this returned object with your widget to check if it has focus ? import tkinter as tk # Create main window root = tk.Tk() root.geometry("400x300") root.title("Focus Check Example") # Create widgets entry1 = tk.Entry(root, ...

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How do I get an event callback when a Tkinter Entry widget is modified?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 25-Mar-2026 8K+ Views

Callback functions in Tkinter are used to handle specific events in widgets. You can add an event callback function to an Entry widget that triggers whenever the widget's content is modified. This is accomplished by creating a Tkinter variable (like StringVar) and using its trace() method to monitor changes. Basic Entry Widget Callback Here's how to create a callback that responds to Entry widget modifications − import tkinter as tk def callback(var): content = var.get() print(f"Entry modified: {content}") # Create main window win = tk.Tk() win.geometry("400x200") ...

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How to change the font on ttk.Entry in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 25-Mar-2026 3K+ Views

There are times when a user wants to insert information like Name, contact number, Email, address, etc. Tkinter has a simple way to handle these types of inputs through its Entry widgets. Tkinter Entry widgets can be styled using the ttk package. To change other properties of the Entry widgets such as font properties, text-size, and font-style, we can use the font('font-family font-size font-style') attribute. We can specify the font property in the entry constructor. Basic Example Here's how to create a ttk.Entry with custom font properties ? # Import tkinter library from tkinter import ...

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How can I resize the root window in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 25-Mar-2026 4K+ Views

In this example, we will see how to resize a tkinter window using the geometry manager. Tkinter geometry manager is generally used to configure the width and height of a tkinter window. The geometry(width x height) method takes width and height as parameters and resizes the window accordingly. We can also define the position of the tkinter window by adding geometry("width x height+X+Y") where X and Y are horizontal and vertical positions of the window. Basic Window Resizing Here's how to create and resize a tkinter window ? # Import tkinter library from tkinter import ...

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Get the text of a button widget in Tkinter

Dev Prakash Sharma
Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 25-Mar-2026 13K+ Views

When building Tkinter applications, you may need to retrieve the text content of a button widget dynamically. The cget() method allows you to get configuration values from any Tkinter widget, including button text. Syntax The basic syntax to get button text is − button_text = button.cget('text') Example Let's create a button and retrieve its text to display in a label widget − # Import tkinter library from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk # Create an instance of tkinter frame or window win = Tk() # Set the ...

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