Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Showing content from https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python/python-tkinter-scale-widget/ below:

Python Tkinter - Scale Widget

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

Tkinter is a GUI toolkit used in python to make user-friendly GUIs.Tkinter is the most commonly used and the most basic GUI framework available in python. Tkinter uses an object-oriented approach to make GUIs.

For more information, refer to

The Scale widget is used whenever we want to select a specific value from a range of values. It provides a sliding bar through which we can select the values by sliding from left to right or top to bottom depending upon the orientation of our sliding bar.

S = Scale(root, bg, fg, bd, command, orient, from_, to, ..) 

• root - root window.
• bg - background colour
• fg - foreground colour
• bd - border
• orient - orientation(vertical or horizontal)
• from_ - starting value
• to - ending value
• troughcolor - set colour for trough.
• state - decides if the widget will be responsive or unresponsive.
• sliderlength - decides the length of the slider.
• label - to display label in the widget.
• highlightbackground - the colour of the focus when widget is not focused.
• cursor - The cursor on the widget which could be arrow, circle, dot etc.

• set(value) - set the value for scale.
• get() - get the value of scale.

Creating a horizontal bar

# Python program to demonstrate
# scale widget

from tkinter import * 


root = Tk()  
root.geometry("400x300") 

v1 = DoubleVar()

def show1():  
    
    sel = "Horizontal Scale Value = " + str(v1.get())
    l1.config(text = sel, font =("Courier", 14))  


s1 = Scale( root, variable = v1, 
           from_ = 1, to = 100, 
           orient = HORIZONTAL)   

l3 = Label(root, text = "Horizontal Scaler")

b1 = Button(root, text ="Display Horizontal", 
            command = show1, 
            bg = "yellow")  

l1 = Label(root)


s1.pack(anchor = CENTER) 
l3.pack()
b1.pack(anchor = CENTER)
l1.pack() 

root.mainloop()

Creating a vertical slider

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()  
root.geometry("400x300") 
v2 = DoubleVar()

def show2():
    
    sel = "Vertical Scale Value = " + str(v2.get()) 
    l2.config(text = sel, font =("Courier", 14))

s2 = Scale( root, variable = v2,
           from_ = 50, to = 1,
           orient = VERTICAL) 

l4 = Label(root, text = "Vertical Scaler")

b2 = Button(root, text ="Display Vertical",
            command = show2,
            bg = "purple", 
            fg = "white")

l2 = Label(root)

s2.pack(anchor = CENTER) 
l4.pack()
b2.pack()
l2.pack()

root.mainloop()

RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4