Tkinter Documentation
At the moment, there is no complete reference documentation on
Tkinter, but one substantial book is available. The following all
form pieces of the puzzle.
- Thinking
in Tkinter is an introduction to some basic Tkinter programming
concepts
- The Pythonware Library contains the most up-to-date
reference documentation available:
- Graphical User
Interfaces with Tk, a chapter from the Python Library Reference.
- Online Tcl/Tk Manual
Pages - the official man pages at the Tcl Developer Xchange,
various versions.
- The books.
- Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson is
the first book concentrating on Tkinter and Pmw programming.
- Programming Python by Mark Lutz has lots of
Tkinter stuff. Some books on Tk may also be helpful. (Many people
find Ousterhout's own Tcl/Tk book only marginally useful for
Tkinter users: too much emphasis on Tcl.)
- The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology created its own
Tkinter manual. It is available in
HTML and
PDF.
- The Tkinter Life Preserver, by Matt Conway is still useful,
though way out of date. It's the only document that explains how to
read the Tcl/Tk manuals and translate the information there to Tkinter
calls. Several incarnations:
- Online,
converted to HTML by Ken Manheimer.
- HTML in a gzipped tar file.
- Postscript in a gzipped tar file (based on an older
version).
- The source. When all else fails: Read The Source, Luke!
- Demo/tkinter/ in the Python source distribution.
This contains many helpful examples, including updated
versions of Matt Conway's examples.
- Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py in any Python distribution.
- Search for "Tkinter" on the Python and
starship web sites; or go directly to Case Roole's
Tkinter Miscellany page on starship.
- Other prominent Tcl/Tk sites:
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