lilytk

Tkinter components that I wanted to make :3

Installing

This can be installed like any other PyPi package pip install lilytk

Capabilities

Highlightable

Adds functions that let the widget be highlighted and unhighlighted with configurable highlight color, highlight width, blink duration, blink delay.

Scrollable

Automatically sets up platform independent mouse scroll events on the widget.

Components

Here are all the components I have implemented and a brief description

ScrollableFrame

Adds scrolling capabilities for the base tk.Frame widget. The frame is wrapped in a canvas with some scrollbars and other implementations I found make it so you have to add the child components to a member variable of the ScrollableFrame class. This ScrollableFrame handles the component hierarchy shizzwazz, so you can have an ergonomic experience.

# examples/scrollable_example_uwu.py
import tkinter as tk
from lilytk import ScrollableFrame

app = tk.Tk()
app.title('scrollable example uwu')
app.geometry('1000x1000')

# You can specify tk.VERITCAL, tk.HORIZONTAL, or tk.BOTH to 
# configure which ways this frame can scroll
scrollable_frame = ScrollableFrame(app, orient=tk.VERTICAL)
scrollable_frame.pack(expand=True, fill=tk.BOTH)

for i in range(0, 200):
  row = tk.Frame(scrollable_frame)
  row.pack(expand=True, fill=tk.X)

  # Text can be in a scrollable list already with ttk.Treeview 
  # and tk.Listbox
  label = tk.Label(row, text=str(i), anchor=tk.E)
  label.pack(side=tk.LEFT, expand=True, fill=tk.X)

  # However ttk.Treeview and tk.Listbox don't allow you to add 
  # tk.Entry widgets or anything that isn't a text string
  entry = tk.Entry(row)
  entry.pack(side=tk.RIGHT, expand=True, fill=tk.X)

app.mainloop()

You can notice, we have our list of components but we are only showing up to 26 out of 200. We also have a scrollbar on the right side.

The scrollbar smoothly moves the ScrollableFrame's view and every tk.Entry component we added still allows text entry as expected.