Tkinter Scrollbar with options and methods

Scrollbar helps user to scroll and view the entire content.

Scrollbar(parent window, options .. )

Tkinter Scrollbar and integrating it with text & Spinbox using different layouts with all options

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *
my_w=tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("350x200")
sb = tk.Scrollbar(my_w,cursor='hand1')
sb.pack(side=RIGHT,fill=Y) 
l1 = tk.Listbox(my_w,height=8,width=90,
	bg='yellow', yscrollcommand = sb.set )
l1.pack(side=LEFT,padx=15) 
for i in range(1, 40): # multiple lines added to Listbox
    l1.insert(END, "Line No : " + str(i))
sb.config( command = l1.yview )

my_w.mainloop()

Options

In above code we used cursor='hand' to change the cursor shape when it is over the scrollbar. You can get a list of curshor shapes in our button widget.

orient

By default the option orient is 'vertical' , we can set it to horizontal to display the Scrollbar in horizontal direction.

sb = tk.Scrollbar(my_w,orient='horizontal')

Using Scrollbar with Listbox

We will use grid layout to place the widgets
Tkinter Listbox with Scrollbar using grid layout

import tkinter as tk
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("300x200")  # Size of the window 
my_w.title("plus2net.com")
l1=tk.Label(my_w,text='Listbox with Scroll bar')
l1.grid(row=1,column=1,columnspan=2,pady=10)
sb = tk.Scrollbar(my_w)
sb.grid(row=2, column=2,  sticky='e')
my_list=['PHP','Python','MySQL','HTML','Jquery','Java','CSS','Perl']
l1 = tk.Listbox(my_w,height=2, yscrollcommand = sb.set)
l1.grid(row=2,column=1,padx=20,pady=20) 

for element in my_list: # adding elements to Listbox
    l1.insert(tk.END,element)
sb.config( command = l1.yview )
my_w.mainloop()  # Keep the window open

Using Scrollbar with Text

We will use grid to place the widgets and one text box is used for inputs
Tkinter text with Scrollbar

import tkinter  as tk 
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("400x200")  

sb = tk.Scrollbar(my_w)
sb.grid(row=1, column=2,  sticky='w')

t1 = tk.Text(my_w, height=3, width=35) 
t1.grid(row=1,column=1,padx=20,pady=20)

my_str1='1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14'
t1.insert(tk.END, my_str1)

sb.config( command = t1.yview )
my_w.mainloop()

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