Neither is intrinsically better than the other. Each have strengths and weaknesses. Learn what those are and the choice of which to use becomes obvious. grid is considerably easier to use if you need to lay things out in a grid. pack is generally easier to use if all you need to do is put … Read more
For determinate mode you do not want to call start. Instead, simply configure the value of the widget or call the step method. If you know in advance how many bytes you are going to download (and I assume you do since you’re using determinate mode), the simplest thing to do is set the maxvalue … Read more
There is no single magic function to force a frame to a minimum or fixed size. However, you can certainly force the size of a frame by giving the frame a width and height. You then have to do potentially two more things: when you put this window in a container you need to make … Read more
I have found the TkDocs tutorial to be very useful. It describes building Tk interfaces using Python and Tkinter and ttk and makes notes about differences between Python 2 and 3. It also has examples in Perl, Ruby and Tcl, since the goal is to teach Tk itself, not the bindings for a particular language. … Read more
The widgets in tkinter are highly and easily configurable. You have almost complete control over how they look – border widths, fonts, images, colors, etc. ttk widgets use styles to define how they look, so it takes a bit more work if you want a non-standard button. ttk widgets are also a little under-documented. Understanding … Read more