ctkmaker-core

The CustomTkinter runtime that powers CTkMaker — a visual designer for CustomTkinter UIs.

It's a fork of CustomTkinter (v5.2.2 baseline). What lands here is driven by what CTkMaker needs — this isn't a general-purpose alternative to upstream, just a focused runtime that anyone is welcome to install and use.

PyPI: ctkmaker-core

What it gives you over CustomTkinter 5.2.2

• Curated bug fixes — cherry-picked from the active fork landscape (Custom2kinter, ToastyToast25, upstream PRs).
• Drop-in module name — still import customtkinter as ctk. CTkMessagebox, CTkColorPicker, CTkScrollableDropdown, CTkColorPalette work unchanged.

Per-release changes tracked in CHANGELOG.md.

Installation

pip uninstall customtkinter   # if installed — both share the customtkinter module name
pip install ctkmaker-core

import customtkinter as ctk
print(ctk.__fork__)          # "ctkmaker-core"
print(ctk.__fork_version__)  # "5.3.1"
print(ctk.__version__)       # "5.2.2"  (upstream baseline)

Platform support

• Primary target: Windows 11 (development + manual testing).
• Linux / macOS: best-effort. Bug reports welcome via issues; feature direction follows CTkMaker.

License

MIT. See LICENSE and NOTICE for attributions to upstream CustomTkinter (Tom Schimansky) and other fork contributors whose work was cherry-picked.

Credits & contributing

ctkmaker-core exists because of the people whose CustomTkinter work was cherry-picked into it. Thank you to:

• Tom Schimansky — author of CustomTkinter; the baseline this fork is built on.
• Federico Spada — Custom2kinter is the primary source of cherry-picked fixes and the configure()/cget() audit triad.
• ToastyToast25 — DPI, destroy-cleanup, and rendering improvements.
• ...and every individual PR author credited per-pick in CHANGELOG.md.

If you've shipped a CustomTkinter fix or improvement of your own, please open an issue or PR — happy to look at it together.

Project status

Pre-1.0. CTkMaker is the primary consumer and drives the roadmap.