Tkinter Custom Widgets

This package contains custom tkinter widgets that might be useful.

Installation

pip install tkinterwidgets

Widgets

• Label

• Label

  Features

  • Transparent background
  • Control opacity

  Usage

  tkinterwidgets.Label(master, OPTIONS)
  

  Options

  • All the options of native tkinter Label except bg/background since the background is transparent.
  • opacity - Used to specify the opacity of the contents on a scale of 0 to 1 (where 0 implies transparent and 1 implies opaque). The default is set to 1.
  • transcolor - Used to specify the color to be used to create the transparency effect (you can imagine this as a green screen but of the specified color, make sure that the visible contents of the label do not have this color). The default is set to SystemButtonFace .

  Methods

  • The following have the same use as that of the corresponding methods in native tkinter widgets
    • pack
    • pack_forget
    • config/configure
    • destroy

  Current Limitations / Issues

  • Only pack geometry manager can be used.
  • Can not be treated as a window in Canvas.create_window() or Text.window_create() or any similar usage.
  • Label might move outside the window when resizing past it in some cases.

  Sample Code

  from tkinter import *
  import tkinterwidgets as tkw 
  
  root=Tk()
  root.config(bg='yellow')
  
  label=Label(root,text='Default Label')
  label.pack()
  
  trans_label=tkw.Label(root,text='tkinterwidgets Label',opacity=0.7)
  trans_label.pack(pady=10)
  
  root.mainloop()