Why dont my python GUI work?

[ebon ruin]

import tkinter as tk

window = tk.Tk()

greetings = tk.Label(text="works")

button = tk.Button(
text="Click me!",
width=25,
height=5,
bg="blue",
fg="yellow",
)

window.mainloop()

[woven agate]

You need to position the things you are creating on the window

greeting.pack() for example

[ebon ruin]

and it also shows " keyword argument repeated : text"

[ebon ruin]

can you elaborate please

[woven agate]

You need to position your labels and buttons on the window. It might be a good idea to follow a tutorial. https://realpython.com/python-gui-tkinter/

[ebon ruin]

i have been using this guide, i fixed greeting.pack()

but the button is still not working

[woven agate]

You also need to position the button

button.pack()

There are more options available if you keep following the tutorial
https://realpython.com/python-gui-tkinter/#controlling-layout-with-geometry-managers

[ebon ruin]

thank you very much, this tutorial didn't mentioned button.pack() as far as i can see

[woven agate]

pack is a general thing for widgets but maybe it could be clearer yeah. Any widget needs to be placed on the screen using one of the methods in the link above

[ebon ruin]

Can we make modern looking GUIs with tkinter?

[woven agate]

If you do from tkinter import ttk and then use ttk.Button for example then it should look a bit more "modern"

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
root = Tk()
frm = ttk.Frame(root, padding=10)
frm.grid()
ttk.Label(frm, text="Hello World!").grid(column=0, row=0)
ttk.Button(frm, text="Quit", command=root.destroy).grid(column=1, row=0)
root.mainloop()

Here is an example from the docs showing what the imports should look like
https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html

[ebon ruin]

looks same, but I'll eventually get there

[woven agate]

Yeah that's as "modern" as you are going to get with tkinter

[ebon ruin]

@woven agate Thanks