How to create different shapes of buttons using Python Tkinter for developing GUI

[ShambhuHubli]

Hi !
I am developing front end for some application using Python Tkinter. And I am new to this GUI development.
In my application, I have to create buttons other than square or rectangle. I want buttons something like Oval(or any other shape). I searched a lot.. But could'nt get.
If any of you know please help me out.

Thanks in advance.

[bartonc]

Hi !
I am developing front end for some application using Python Tkinter. And I am new to this GUI development.
In my application, I have to create buttons other than square or rectangle. I want buttons something like Oval(or any other shape). I searched a lot.. But could'nt get.
If any of you know please help me out.

Thanks in advance.

Hello and welcome. You didn't find add shaped buttons in Tkinter because (AFAIK) they don't exist. There are many such things missing from that toolkit. I'm not sure if it is due to TK limitations or merely Tkinter development, but either way, Tkinter is not a full fledged GUI toolkit. You could, however, probably develop your own button (not recommended because you will soon hit other limitations and chuck Tkinter) with some graphics and an event handler or two.

There are many option when you decide to step up from Tkinter. My favorite GUI toolkit (which does contain shaped windows is called wxPython. It's a Python wrapper (interface) to the very cool wxWidgets package.