CTkForge

Custom extension components and widgets for CustomTkinter.

Installation

pip install ctkforge

Features

• CTkPopup: A modern popup modal dialog widget for alerts, confirmations, and error messages. Includes ready-to-use types (info, warning, error, question, success), keyboard shortcuts (Enter to confirm, Escape to cancel), clean Windows 11 button styling, and automatically turns into a scrollable box for long error text. See detailed documentation.

• CTkSpinbox: A number input widget with classic up and down arrow buttons (▲/▼). Supports mouse wheel scrolling, arrow key adjustments, minimum/maximum limits, custom steps, and matches CustomTkinter's colors and rounded corners. See detailed documentation.

• CTkTable: A fast, smooth data table widget built to handle massive datasets without slowing down. Features smart column sorting, row and cell selection, double-click cell editing, copy-pasting (Ctrl+C), auto-fitting column widths, and optional alternating row colors. See API reference, user guide.

• Universal DPI unscale Helper: Utility function to convert raw physical pixel dimensions from Tkinter (winfo_*) back to unscaled 100% baseline (96 DPI) values for CustomTkinter windows.

• Resource Locator (resource_path): Robust asset path resolver that finds images, icons, audio, and data files across direct filesystem paths, the script entry directory (sys.argv[0]), and PyInstaller single-file bundle extractions (sys._MEIPASS).

Usage

1. CTkPopup Dialogs

import customtkinter as ctk
from ctkforge import CTkPopup

app = ctk.CTk()

# Quick confirmation dialog (Enter for Yes, Escape for No)
popup = CTkPopup(
    master=app,
    title="Confirm Action",
    text="Do you want to proceed with the update?",
    preset="question",
)

choice = popup.get()
if choice is True:
    print("User clicked Yes")
else:
    print("User clicked No or closed the dialog")

app.mainloop()

(See demo_ctkpopup_basic.py, and demo_ctkpopup_test_suite.py for interactive demos).

2. CTkSpinbox

import customtkinter as ctk
from ctkforge import CTkSpinbox

app = ctk.CTk()

spinbox = CTkSpinbox(
    app,
    start_value=25,
    min_value=1,
    max_value=100,
    step=1,
    width=120,
    height=38,
)
spinbox.pack(padx=20, pady=20)

app.mainloop()

(See demo_ctkspinbox.py for interactive demo).

3. CTkTable Data Grid

import customtkinter as ctk
from ctkforge import CTkTable

app = ctk.CTk()
app.geometry("800x400")

headers = ["ID", "Employee Name", "Department", "Salary"]
data = [
    ["101", "Ada Lovelace", "Research", "£125,000"],
    ["102", "Alan Turing", "Data Systems", "£135,000"],
    ["103", "Grace Hopper", "Engineering", "£130,000"],
]

table = CTkTable(
    app,
    headers=headers,
    values=data,
    column_widths=[90, 220, 180, 140],
    column_types={0: "int"},
    selection_target="row",
    selection_mode="extended",
    editable=True,
    alternate_row_color=("gray92", "gray14"),
)
table.pack(fill="both", expand=True, padx=20, pady=20)

app.mainloop()

(See demo_ctktable_basic.py, and demo_ctktable_clipboard_and_crud.py for interactive demos).

4. Universal DPI Unscaling (unscale)

Convert raw physical pixel values from Tkinter (winfo_*) back to unscaled 100% baseline (96 DPI) values to prevent double-scaling bugs when setting CustomTkinter geometry on High-DPI displays:

import customtkinter as ctk
from ctkforge import unscale

app = ctk.CTk()
app.update_idletasks()

# Unscale multiple physical dimensions simultaneously:
width, height = unscale(app, app.winfo_width(), app.winfo_height())

# Or unscale a single coordinate:
root_x = unscale(app, app.winfo_rootx())

# Set window geometry safely without High-DPI drift:
app.geometry(f"{width}x{height}")

5. Resource Path Resolution (resource_path)

Find files reliably in both development and PyInstaller single-file executables (.exe):

from ctkforge import resource_path

# Finds asset whether running from terminal, script folder, or PyInstaller bundle
icon_path = resource_path("assets/custom_icon.png")

Crafted and maintained by Rafalus. Happy forging!