Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be building a sticky notes desktop app in tkinter using python. All the full source code of the application is shown below.
Get Started
In order to get started you need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code
app.py
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from tkinter import * import tkinter.scrolledtext as tkst from tkinter import messagebox from tkinter import font no_of_windows = 1 class StickyNotes(Toplevel): def __init__(self, master, **kwargs): super().__init__(master, **kwargs) self.xclick = 0 self.yclick = 0 # master (root) window self.overrideredirect(True) global no_of_windows self.geometry('250x250+' + str(1000+no_of_windows*(-30)) + '+' + str(100 + no_of_windows*20)) self.config(bg = '#838383') self.attributes('-topmost', 'true') self.resizable(True,True) # titlebar self.titlebar = Frame(self, bg = '#F8F796', relief = 'flat', bd = 2) self.titlebar.bind('<Button-1>', self.get_pos) self.titlebar.bind('<B1-Motion>', self.move_window) self.titlebar.pack(fill = X, expand = 1, side = TOP) self.closebutton = Label(self.titlebar, text = 'X', bg = '#F8F7B6', relief = 'flat') self.closebutton.bind('<Button-1>', self.quit_window) self.closebutton.pack(side = RIGHT) self.newbutton = Label(self.titlebar, text = '+', bg = '#F8F7B6', relief = 'flat') self.newbutton.pack(side = LEFT) self.newbutton.bind('<Button-1>', self.another_window) # main text area self.mainarea = tkst.ScrolledText(self, bg = '#FDFDCA', font=('Comic Sans MS', 14, 'italic'), relief = 'flat', padx = 5, pady = 10) self.mainarea.pack(fill = BOTH, expand = 1) # frames to introduce shadows self.shadow = Frame(self).pack(side=BOTTOM) self.shadow = Frame(self).pack(side=RIGHT) no_of_windows += 1 def get_pos(self, event): self.xclick = event.x self.yclick = event.y def move_window(self, event): self.geometry('+{0}+{1}'.format(event.x_root-self.xclick, event.y_root-self.yclick)) def another_window(self, event): sticky = StickyNotes(root) def quit_window(self, event): self.closebutton.config(relief = 'flat', bd = 0) if(messagebox.askyesno('Delete Note?','Are you sure you want to delete this note?', parent = self)): global no_of_windows self.destroy() no_of_windows -= 1 if(no_of_windows == 1): root.destroy() return self.closebutton.config(relief = 'flat', bd = 0, bg = '#F8F7B6') root = Tk() root.withdraw() # make the first note. sticky = StickyNotes(root) root.mainloop() |
Now if you execute the above python script by typing the below command as shown below
python app.py
