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How will I make a tk window which cannot be minimized in Python Tkinter?

I tried win.overrideredirect(True) it didn't work...
My Code goes like this:
from tkinter import *
win = Tk()
win.resizable(0,0)
win.wm_protocol("WM_SAVE_YOURSELF", lambda: print("On exit"))
Label(win, text="Tk Window").pack()
win.mainloop()
Specs:
Python 3.9.6 [Latest],
Pip 21.1.3,
OS: Windows 10 Home
I want to make the minimize button to be disabled...
Please help

The thing #N1CK145 posted didn't work for me but I am guessing that he/she tried to do this:
import Tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
root.attributes("-toolwindow", True)
root.mainloop()
If you want to know more attribute options look here

try resizeable function like this :
win= Tk()
win.geometry("750x250")
win.resizable(False, False)

Found this here:
import Tkinter as tk
root= tk.Tk()
root.title("wm min/max")
# this removes the maximize button
root.resizable(0,0)
# # if on MS Windows, this might do the trick,
# # but I wouldn't know:
# root.attributes(toolwindow=1)
# # for no window manager decorations at all:
# root.overrideredirect(1)
# # useful for something like a splash screen
root.mainloop()

How to make python tkinter match button to OS

Why does tkinter.Button() appear as some ancient OS style button, while a messagebox like tkinter.messagebox.showinfo() comes with an OK button using the current version of the OS?
My OS is Windows. Not sure if this problem exists on Mac OS, but either way the people using my tools are on Windows.
An example snippet of code I found here shows how the buttons are different.
Image:
Question:
Is there a way to make tkinter.Button() look like the button inside a messagebox, which seems to be using the current OS style?
Code:
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import messagebox
window = Tk()
window.title("Welcome to LikeGeeks app")
window.geometry('350x200')
def clicked():
messagebox.showinfo('Message title', 'Message content')
btn = Button(window,text='Click here', command=clicked)
btn.grid(column=0,row=0)
window.mainloop()

Use tkinter.ttk to get themed version
from tkinter.ttk import *
from tkinter import messagebox
window = Tk()
window.title("Welcome to LikeGeeks app")
window.geometry('350x200')
def clicked():
messagebox.showinfo('Message title', 'Message content')
btn = Button(window,text='Click here', command=clicked)
btn.grid(column=0,row=0)
window.mainloop()
doc

You can use tkinter.ttk which provides a modern OS style theme to your TK widgets. Example from the Python tkinter docs:
from tkinter import ttk
import tkinter
root = tkinter.Tk()
ttk.Style().configure("TButton", padding=6, relief="flat",
background="#ccc")
btn = ttk.Button(text="Sample")
btn.pack()
root.mainloop()
#Output:

Why always have to force quit python launcher after running Tkinter on Mac?

I'm using jupyter notebook on mac, recently I need to write interactive dialog box, so after google, I use Tkinter to make an interactive window.
But I was bothered by this problem couples day ,and still can't find a solution way.
Fisrt example:
from Tkinter import *
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename
import sys
import os,time
def callback():
name= askopenfilename()
print name
errmsg = 'Error!'
Button(text='File Open', command=callback).pack(fill=X)
mainloop()
Second example:
from Tkinter import *
import sys,os
class YourApp(Tk):
def quit_and_close(self):
app.quit()
#os._exit(0)
#sys.exit(1)
#exit(0)
app = YourApp()
app.title('example')
app.geometry('400x300+200+200')
b = Button(app, text = "quit", command = app.quit_and_close)
b.pack()
app.mainloop()
And the third one:
import Tkinter as tk
import tkMessageBox
def ask_quit():
if tkMessageBox.askokcancel("Quit", "You want to quit now? *sniff*"):
root.destroy()
root = tk.Tk()
root.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", ask_quit)
root.mainloop()
After running those above code, always need have to force quit python launcher.
It is very weird, and annoying because after forcing quit, I will got the error:
Is it necessary to use python launcher as default window?
Is there possible to set another window to open ?
or is there proper way to close the launcher without causing programming crash?
p.s Even I try to use wxpython, it still open python launcher and got the same problem.

MacOSX Tkinter no response when Tk()

I have a TkButton.py like this
from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()
button = Button(root, text = 'Python/Tkinter')
button.pack()
root.mainloop()
But when I execute python2.7 TkButton.py, it just stuck.
I installed Python2.7 and py27-tkinter using MacPorts.
My OS is OS X 10.11.6
Can somebody help me?
Addition
Tkinter.Tk() not working. I don't know why.
And I can't write any command after root = tk.Tk(), so I have to Ctrl-C to quit.

Way to play video files in Tkinter?

Is there a way to play video files like AVI, MP4, etc.?
I tried using PyMedia, but apparently it only works with Pygame.
What is the solution to my problem?

You could use python-gstreamer for playing videos (this works for me on Linux, but it should also work on Windows). This requires python-gstreamer and python-gobject, I would recommend you to use this all-in-one installer.
Here is the code:
import os
import sys
import Tkinter as tkinter
import gobject
import gst
def on_sync_message(bus, message, window_id):
if not message.structure is None:
if message.structure.get_name() == 'prepare-xwindow-id':
image_sink = message.src
image_sink.set_property('force-aspect-ratio', True)
image_sink.set_xwindow_id(window_id)
gobject.threads_init()
window = tkinter.Tk()
window.geometry('500x400')
video = tkinter.Frame(window, bg='#000000')
video.pack(side=tkinter.BOTTOM,anchor=tkinter.S,expand=tkinter.YES,fill=tkinter.BOTH)
window_id = video.winfo_id()
player = gst.element_factory_make('playbin2', 'player')
player.set_property('video-sink', None)
player.set_property('uri', 'file://%s' % (os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])))
player.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)
bus = player.get_bus()
bus.add_signal_watch()
bus.enable_sync_message_emission()
bus.connect('sync-message::element', on_sync_message, window_id)
window.mainloop()

The following code works for me with GStreamer 1.0 and Python 3 under Ubuntu 16.04. It also enables eight video players stacked in a column in a single window. (The sound channels are simply mixed together.)
The libav/ffmpeg fork created problems under Ubuntu 14.04, which seem to be solved under 16.04. Note that you need the package gstreamer1.0-libav in addition to gstreamer1.0-plugins-*.
The code builds on the 2011 answer by #koehlma, which assumed GStreamer 0.10 and Python 2.
import sys
import os
if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
import Tkinter as tkinter
else:
import tkinter
import gi
gi.require_version('Gst', '1.0')
from gi.repository import Gst, GObject
# Needed for set_window_handle():
gi.require_version('GstVideo', '1.0')
from gi.repository import GstVideo
def set_frame_handle(bus, message, frame_id):
if not message.get_structure() is None:
if message.get_structure().get_name() == 'prepare-window-handle':
display_frame = message.src
display_frame.set_property('force-aspect-ratio', True)
display_frame.set_window_handle(frame_id)
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES = 8 # with more frames than arguments, videos are repeated
relative_height = 1 / float(NUMBER_OF_FRAMES)
# Only argument number checked, not validity.
number_of_file_names_given = len(sys.argv) - 1
if number_of_file_names_given < 1:
print('Give at least one video file name.')
sys.exit()
if number_of_file_names_given < NUMBER_OF_FRAMES:
print('Up to', NUMBER_OF_FRAMES, 'video file names can be given.')
file_names = list()
for index in range(number_of_file_names_given):
file_names.append(sys.argv[index + 1])
window = tkinter.Tk()
window.title("Multiple videos in a column using Tk and GST 1.0")
window.geometry('480x960')
Gst.init(None)
GObject.threads_init()
for number in range(NUMBER_OF_FRAMES):
display_frame = tkinter.Frame(window, bg='')
relative_y = number * relative_height
display_frame.place(relx = 0, rely = relative_y,
anchor = tkinter.NW, relwidth = 1, relheight = relative_height)
frame_id = display_frame.winfo_id()
player = Gst.ElementFactory.make('playbin', None)
fullname = os.path.abspath(file_names[number % len(file_names)])
player.set_property('uri', 'file://%s' % fullname)
player.set_state(Gst.State.PLAYING)
bus = player.get_bus()
bus.enable_sync_message_emission()
bus.connect('sync-message::element', set_frame_handle, frame_id)
window.mainloop()

Make use of tkvideoplayer version>=2.0.0 library, which can help you to play, pause, seek, get metadata of the video etc.
pip install tkvideoplayer
Sample example:
import tkinter as tk
from tkVideoPlayer import TkinterVideo
root = tk.Tk()
videoplayer = TkinterVideo(master=root, scaled=True)
videoplayer.load(r"samplevideo.mp4")
videoplayer.pack(expand=True, fill="both")
videoplayer.play() # play the video
root.mainloop()
An example to create a complete video player is in the GitHub page
Refer documentation

Tha easy way is by using tkVideo
to install it
pip install tkVideo
this is script that show you how does it work easily!
from tkinter import *
from tkvideo import tkvideo
root = Tk()
my_label = Label(root)
my_label.pack()
player = tkvideo("C:\\path\\to\\video.mp4", my_label, loop = 1, size = (1280,720))
player.play()
root.mainloop()
this is PyPI link to it for more informations.

koehlma's answer is quite outdated. The "Tkinter" should be "tkinter"; "gst" should "Gst"; "playbin2" should be "playbin". "STATE_PLAYING" should be "State.PLAYING". The below setup and codes works on Debian 11 as of Apr 5, 2022.
First of all, the packages you need to install are
apt install python3-gi python3-gst-1.0 python3-tk
And the code should be updated to:
import os
import sys
import tkinter as tkinter
import gi
gi.require_version('Gst', '1.0')
from gi.repository import Gst as gst
from gi.repository import GObject as gobject
def on_sync_message(bus, message, window_id):
return
# message does not have structure field any more.
if not message.structure is None:
if message.structure.get_name() == 'prepare-xwindow-id':
image_sink = message.src
image_sink.set_property('force-aspect-ratio', True)
image_sink.set_xwindow_id(window_id)
gobject.threads_init()
window = tkinter.Tk()
window.geometry('500x400')
video = tkinter.Frame(window, bg='#000000')
video.pack(side=tkinter.BOTTOM,anchor=tkinter.S,expand=tkinter.YES,fill=tkinter.BOTH)
window_id = video.winfo_id()
gst.init(None)
player = gst.ElementFactory.make('playbin', 'player')
player.set_property('video-sink', None)
player.set_property('uri', 'file://%s' % (os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])))
player.set_state(gst.State.PLAYING)
bus = player.get_bus()
bus.add_signal_watch()
bus.enable_sync_message_emission()
bus.connect('sync-message::element', on_sync_message, window_id)
window.mainloop()

I've recently made a package to do this, borderless video player. It also plays audio in sync.
pip install bvPlayer
The code:
from bvPlayer import bvPlayer
bvPlayer("file.mp4")
The repository