Python GUI Programming Cookbook

Text box widgets

In tkinter, the typical textbox widget is called Entry. In this recipe, we will add such an Entry to our GUI. We will make our label more useful by describing what the Entry is doing for the user.

Getting ready

This recipe builds upon the Creating buttons and changing their text property recipe.

How to do it...

# Modified Button Click Function # 1 def clickMe(): # 2 action.configure(text='Hello ' + name.get()) # Position Button in second row, second column (zero-based) action.grid(column=1, row=1) # Changing our Label # 3 ttk.Label(win, text="Enter a name:").grid(column=0, row=0) # 4 # Adding a Textbox Entry widget # 5 name = tk.StringVar() # 6 nameEntered = ttk.Entry(win, width=12, textvariable=name) # 7 nameEntered.grid(column=0, ...