Tkinter custom create buttons

Question

Can tkinter create custom buttons from an image or icon like this?

Answer 1

It's possible!

If you check out the button documentation, you can use an image to display on the button.

For example:

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()

button = Button(root, text="Click me!")
img = PhotoImage(file="C:/path to image/example.gif") # make sure to add "/" not "\"
button.config(image=img)
button.pack() # Displaying the button

root.mainloop()

This is a simplified example for adding an image to a button widget, you can make many more cool things with the button widget.

Answer 2

I created a library called CustomTkinter, and with it you can create more or less exactly what is shown in the images above. CustomTkinter provides widgets to be used similar to Tkinter. They can be customised in color and shape, here I tried to create something similar to the image above:

There is not also a button, but many other elements, and it also supports a dark and light theme:

You can check out the library here:

https://customtkinter.tomschimansky.com https://github.com/TomSchimansky/CustomTkinter

A simple example would be:

import customtkinter

customtkinter.set_appearance_mode("System")
customtkinter.set_default_color_theme("blue")

app = customtkinter.CTk()  # create window
app.geometry("400x240")

def button_callback():
    print("button pressed")

# create button
button = customtkinter.CTkButton(app, command=button_callback)
button.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=20, pady=20)

app.mainloop()

which gives the following on macOS: