Welcome!

Learn the latest modern Tk features so you can make better GUI's.

This site is here to supplement the existing documentation available for Tk, especially focusing on the newest innovations found in Tk 8.5 and beyond. While not yet fully complete, there's already a very significant amount of very helpful material here (notably the tutorial), with more still being added. It would be a great help if you could have a look around, provide any comments, corrections or suggestions, or even help fill in some of the missing pieces.

Currently, most of the background material is done, there is a complete first cut of the tutorial, and there's a start on the widget roundup. In the near future, the plan is to continue refining the tutorial, and keep expanding it beyond Tcl and Ruby — the Perl additions are in progress, and Python is the next obvious one. The widget roundup will probably take a back seat for a while, as the tutorial material is in greater demand.

For some more on the "what" and "why" of this site, have a peek at the about page.

Tk 8.5.5 Released.

Tk 8.5 contains an entirely new themed widget set. Latest patch released October 15th.

After way too many years, Tk 8.5 is now out in the wild, with many people now working hard on adapting their programs to use the great new features. This is a huge milestone release, but (fortunately or unfortunately) people just running their existing Tk programs in it won't notice much of a difference. Programs will have to switch from the "classic" Tk widgets to the new themed "ttk::" widgets. Luckily this isn't that hard to do at all, but people need to be made aware the new stuff is there.