What is Spinbox widget?

Spinbox widget is similar to standard Tkinter Entry widget, It is also used to take input from the user, but here input is predefined or between some range. Like – if you want to take one number from the user between 1 to 100 then Spinbox can be used.

Example

The following Python script creates a window containing one Spinbox widget that takes one number from the user between 1 to 10. The user can increase or decrease the visible value on the entry field by clicking on up and down button.

You need to write following code in any text editor and then save it with .py extension. To execute the application, Type py SpinboxExample.py command in terminal. 

from tkinter import *

# Top level window
window = Tk()

window.title("Studyfied.com")
window.geometry('350x200')

# Create a spinbox
spinbox = Spinbox(window, from_=1, to=10)
spinbox.pack()

window.mainloop()

Output

The above code produces the following output in windows operating system.

Explanation

Following line creates a Tkinter window

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()

window.title("Studyfied.com")
window.geometry('350x200')

See explanation of Tkinter window – Tkinter top level window

This snippet creates a Spinbox widget, the first parameter is the name of the parent widget or window. Here it is “window”. And the remaining two are min and max range number, the user can increase or decrease it by up / down arrow button, You can also pass a tuple with some values instead of range. You can also provide other properties to customize the widget.

# Create a spinbox
spinbox = Spinbox(window, from_=1, to=10)
spinbox.pack()

The second line spinbox.pack(), is geometry manager that packs widgets into rows or columns.

Some spinbox properties