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Question

I am redesigning the GUI of a program that uses tkinter in python. I used ttk widgets for this program, but I think, even on W10, the interface is way too old so I decided to update the visual interface for the program using METRO interface or W10 alike UI.

The first thing that come in mind, is that W10 have a left-side "tabs" that are very beautiful and useful, and the question is if is that a way to using the ttk.notebook widget, change the position of the tabs?

Otherwise, I could do buttons placed on the side and load frame widgets on every button clicked, but I think this could overload so much the program loading constantly frames and widgets, and I am trying to avoid this way.

Thanks to everyone.

Answer 1

It is possible to change the position of the tabs by configuring the tabposition option of the TNotebook style.

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk

root = tk.Tk()

style = ttk.Style(root)
style.configure('lefttab.TNotebook', tabposition='ws')

notebook = ttk.Notebook(root, style='lefttab.TNotebook')
f1 = tk.Frame(notebook, bg='red', width=200, height=200)
f2 = tk.Frame(notebook, bg='blue', width=200, height=200)
notebook.add(f1, text='Frame 1')
notebook.add(f2, text='Frame 2')
notebook.pack()

root.mainloop()

This is how it looks like with the default theme on linux:

However, the text inside the tabs is always horizontal. I don't have Windows, so I don't know exactly how the W10 UI looks like, but I guess that you would like to rotate the tabs, not just change there position and I don't know how to do that.