Changing Theme of a Tkinter GUI
Hello everyone, In this tutorial, we will learn about how to change the theme of Tkinter GUI. We create a GUI application using Tkinter but we don’t know how to change those boring traditional widgets with something that looks more attractive to the user. We do not get external theme support so we will be using a python library named ttkthemes which has included many themes for our application. This Library supports python version 2.7 or more.
Let’s start by installing ttkthemes in our Python environment.
Installing ttkthemes
We can install ttkthemes with the command below.
pip install ttkthemes
We can also install via Git using
python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/RedFantom/ttkthemes
Before start Coding, we recommend that you get used to the basics of Tkinter. Refer to these tutorials.
Introduction to Tkinter module in Python
Tkinter pack() , grid() Method In Python
All set guys, Let us change that default theme.
Change Theme with ttkthemes – Tkinter GUI
We assume that you have prior knowledge of basic imports while making a Tkinter GUI and will describe the new things that we will be doing in our code.
import tkinter as tk import tkinter.ttk as ttk from ttkthemes import ThemedStyle
We have imported ThemedStyle from ttkthemes which supports the external themes provided by this package and sets those themes to the Tk instance of our GUI.
app = tk.Tk() app.geometry("200x400") app.title("Changing Themes") # Setting Theme style = ThemedStyle(app) style.set_theme("scidgrey")
In the code above we have created a Tk instance as ‘app’ and set the theme as ‘scidgrey’ which is provided by the ThemeStyle package.
Let us create some widgets using both tk(Default_Themed) and ttk(External_Themed) and see the difference between them.
# Button Widgets Def_Btn = tk.Button(app,text='Default Button') Def_Btn.pack() Themed_Btn = ttk.Button(app,text='Themed button') Themed_Btn.pack() # Scrollbar Widgets Def_Scrollbar = tk.Scrollbar(app) Def_Scrollbar.pack(side='right',fill='y') Themed_Scrollbar = ttk.Scrollbar(app,orient='horizontal') Themed_Scrollbar.pack(side='top',fill='x') # Entry Widgets Def_Entry = tk.Entry(app) Def_Entry.pack() Themed_Entry = ttk.Entry(app) Themed_Entry.pack() app.mainloop()
List of themes in ttkthemes
- Aquativo
- Arc
- Clearlooks
- Equilux
- Keramic
- Plastik
- Radiance
- Scid themes
- Smog
There are many more themes in this Library, look at them here
We hope you really enjoy this tutorial and if you have any doubt, feel free to leave a comment below.
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