I think part of the reason is that Tk is surprisingly powerful and easy to use but it doesn’t do much hand-holding. Since it is so easy, people with little experience in UI design can get something to work in very short order. But, without a lot of experience they rely on defaults and shortest-path-to-a-solution … Read more
Tk has basically two sets of widgets, the classic widgets and the themed widgets. The classic widgets are default because of the need to support old applications, but new code should use the themed widgets. (They can’t be overloaded because they work in quite different ways, and there’s a lot of code out there that … Read more
In Python3.x things have changed a little bit: >>> import tkinter >>> import tkinter.messagebox >>> I mean what we call tkMessageBox in Python2.x becomes tkinter.messagebox in Python3.x
root.configure(background=’black’) or more generally <widget>.configure(background=’black’)
Cygwin’s gitk and Git GUI require X11. This means you need to install some of the Cygwin X11 packages and set them up to be able to open the GUI. This should get you up and running: Run the Cygwin installer again (download the relevant setup-*.exe again if you need to). At the package list, … Read more
Before actually using GUI dialogues, consider using console prompts. Quite often you can get away with simple “y/n?” prompts, which in bash you achieve via the read command.. read -p “Do something? “; if [ $REPLY == “y” ]; then echo yay; fi If console prompt’s just won’t cut it, Zenity is really easy to … Read more
Probably the vast majority of of tk-based applications place all the components in the default root window. This is the most convenient way to do it since it already exists. Choosing to hide the default window and create your own is a perfectly fine thing to do, though it requires just a tiny bit of … Read more