Making Notepad GUI using Tkinter and Python

Abhishek Biswas
2 min readFeb 25, 2022

The objective of this article is to make a notepad GUI type application using Tkinter library and python 3. The notepad GUI we make will consist of multiple menu like file and edit, with which all capabilities like saving the file, opening a file, editing, cut and paste can be done.

Steps to be followed before starting.

  1. First step to ensure that the Python 3 is installed in the system.
  2. After ensuring that the python is installed then we have installed the Tkinter package. This package is useful package which provide the python user to make GUI elements using the widgets found in the Tkinter toolkit. This package is installed using the pip download manager. the way of installing this package is pip install tk or pip install python-tk in terminal of any operating system like Windows, Linux, Mac.

Implementation.

The python code for making Notepad GUI using the library Tkinter.

Output of this implementation.

The output of the implementation makes a Notepad GUI. Here is some screenshots of the Notepad GUI.

The Notepad GUI made using the Tkinter library and python

References.

  1. https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html
  2. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-oops-concepts/
  3. https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html

Thank you.

And I also gives thanks to the users for reading my article. please check this GitHub link for getting the full code.

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