In this recipe, we will create tabbed widgets to further organize our expanding GUI written in tkinter.
In order to improve our Python GUI using tabs, we will start at the beginning, using the minimum amount of code necessary. In the following recipes, we will add widgets from previous recipes and place them into this new tabbed layout.
Create a new Python module and place the following code into this module:
import tkinter as tk # imports
from tkinter import ttk
win = tk.Tk() # Create instance
win.title("Python GUI") # Add a title
tabControl = ttk.Notebook(win) # Create Tab Control
tab1 = ttk.Frame(tabControl) # Create a tab
tabControl.add(tab1, text='Tab 1') # Add the tab
tabControl.pack(expand=1, fill="both") # Pack to make visible
win.mainloop() # Start GUIThis creates the following GUI:
