Ttk widgets

Introduction#

Examples of the different ttk widgets. Ttk has a total of 17 widgets, eleven of which already existed in tkinter (tk).

Using ttk module gives your application a more modern and improved look.

Syntax#

tree=ttk.Treeview(master,**kwargs)

Parameters#

Parameter	Description
master	tkinter widgets exist in a hieararchy. Except for the root window, all widgets have a parent (also called “master”). When the widget is added to the screen with pack, place or grid, it will appear inside this parent widget
## Remarks#
These examples assume that tkinter has been imported with either `import tkinter as tk` (python 3) or `import Tkinter as tk` (python 2).

It is also assumed that ttk has been imported with either from tkinter import ttk (python 3) or import ttk (python 2).

Treeview: Basic example

This widget is used to display items with hierarchy. For instance, windows explorer can be reproduced in this way. Some nice tables can be also done using treeview widget.

Create the widget

tree=ttk.Treeview(master)

Definition of the columns

You can define how many columns, their width and minimum width when the user tries to stretch it. By defining stretch=tk.NO, the user cannot modify the width of the column.

tree["columns"]=("one","two","three")
tree.column("#0", width=270, minwidth=270, stretch=tk.NO)
tree.column("one", width=150, minwidth=150, stretch=tk.NO)
tree.column("two", width=400, minwidth=200)
tree.column("three", width=80, minwidth=50, stretch=tk.NO)

Definition of the headings

tree.heading("#0",text="Name",anchor=tk.W)
tree.heading("one", text="Date modified",anchor=tk.W)
tree.heading("two", text="Type",anchor=tk.W)
tree.heading("three", text="Size",anchor=tk.W)

Insert some rows

# Level 1
folder1=tree.insert("", 1, "", text="Folder 1", values=("23-Jun-17 11:05","File folder",""))
tree.insert("", 2, "", text="text_file.txt", values=("23-Jun-17 11:25","TXT file","1 KB"))
# Level 2
tree.insert(folder1, "end", "", text="photo1.png", values=("23-Jun-17 11:28","PNG file","2.6 KB"))
tree.insert(folder1, "end", "", text="photo2.png", values=("23-Jun-17 11:29","PNG file","3.2 KB"))
tree.insert(folder1, "end", "", text="photo3.png", values=("23-Jun-17 11:30","PNG file","3.1 KB"))

Packing

tree.pack(side=tk.TOP,fill=tk.X)

On Windows, the following screenshot can be obtained from this example.

Progressbar

The widget ttk.progress is useful when dealing with long computations so that the user knows that the program is running. Following, an example updating a progressbar each 0.5 seconds is given:

Function updating the progressbar

def progress(currentValue):
    progressbar["value"]=currentValue

Set the maximum value

maxValue=100

Create the progress bar

progressbar=ttk.Progressbar(master,orient="horizontal",length=300,mode="determinate")
progressbar.pack(side=tk.TOP)

“determinate” mode is used when the progressbar is under control of the program.

Initial and maximum values

currentValue=0
progressbar["value"]=currentValue
progressbar["maximum"]=maxValue

Emulate progress each 0.5 s

divisions=10
for i in range(divisions):
    currentValue=currentValue+10
    progressbar.after(500, progress(currentValue))
    progressbar.update() # Force an update of the GUI