Welcome to TkUtils

tkutils is a package offering some additional logic and syntactic sugar when using tkinter. The main goal is to fill some gaps of tkinter, which might make it very annoying to use.

Online version of the help documentation: http://frederic-zinelli.gitlab.io/tkutils/

Features

Additional logic: two-way binding, with Binder

The Binder class is to setup a transparent two-way binding reactivity between widgets and underlying object properties from the model/logic layer of the application.

Several advantages come with this:

• Changes of bound properties in the model layer are cascading in the GUI automatically.
• The model layer of the application becomes (finally) totally independent from the presentation layer. This means it becomes very easy to build and test the model layer, without any need to think about its integration with tkinter itself.

Syntactic sugar

GridLayout

A grid layout manager which is abstracting away all the naughty widget.grid(...) calls and rows/columns grid configuration. Positioning widgets in the grid and controlling their "spanning" becomes very easy, without extra typing.

MenuBuilder

A helper to build menus and to abstract away all the technicalities encountered when creating menus through tkinter, which quickly make the declarations very unclear. Using the MenuBuilder, the actual Menu hierarchy becomes very obvious: "what you see is what you get".

Event

A utility to build event strings with auto-completion/IDE suggestions support.

KeySym

A utility to get all keysym information with auto-completion/IDE suggestions (providing string, keycode and keysym_num values).

images

Various factories related to images to:

• Simplify and reduce the typing needed,
• Handle file conversions automatically,
• Register automatically the image object on the host for the user (to avoid garbage collection).

Requirements

• python 3.8+
• Pillow

Installation

• Through PyPi:

pip install tkutils

• Using an archive file (with the appropriate version number):

pip install tkutils.1.0.2.tar.gz

• Cloning the GitLab repository.