Using Tk Widgets

If you have a blog or an account on social networking site, you're probably not only familiar with the term "widget," but have also probably added them to your site. Even if you don't recognize the word, you'd recognize a widget when you saw one. A widget (also called a control) are individual pieces of each application. Buttons, check boxes, input boxes and scrollbars, for example, are all widgets.

Every GUI program is composed of a number of "widgets." In fact, the very basis of all GUI applications is a collection of widgets. If you're GUI programming with Tk, one of the most basic tasks to learn is how to create a Tk window and fill it with widgets.