How to Build User Interfaces with Python — Tkinter Widgets — Part. 1

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This story follows the User Interfaces series. If you have missed the last Tkinter story, you can find it here:

Build User Interfaces with Python

What Is a Widget

Tkinter, and most of the UI libraries or frameworks existing work on a widget system. That’s why it’s so important to understand what is a widget.

A widget is an element of a GUI that can be used to display information, structure a UI, or give the possibility to the user to interact with the application.

In Tkinter, everything is a widget, except the top-level window containing the application.

If we take for example a calculator app, each button is a widget, the display of the result is a widget, and the frame containing all these elements is a widget too.

How to Use Widgets in Tkinter

I’ve already talked about this in the first story of this series, so I won’t go into too much detail here. But just a quick reminder, here is the syntax to create and use a…