User Guide

User Guide

End-user documentation for working with CTkMaker.

Project & forms

• Projects — create, save, load, autosave, recover
• Windows-and-Dialogs — Main Window, Dialogs, All Windows dropdown

Editing on the canvas

• Interface-Overview — tour of the main window
• Canvas-Workspace — placing, moving, resizing widgets
• Selection — single, multi-select, rubber-band
• Grouping — tie sibling widgets as one unit
• Object-Tree — hierarchy, nesting, reparenting

Properties & assets

• Properties-Panel — schema-driven editors
• Variables — project-level shared values + property bindings
• Object-References — typed widget pointers for behaviour code
• Assets-Panel — project file tree
• Font-Manager — custom fonts, project cascade
• Image-and-Icon-Library — image picker + Lucide icons

Panels & tools

• History-Panel — undo/redo, time-travel
• Clipboard — copy, paste, duplicate
• Tools-Menu — Inspect CTk Widget
• Settings — preferences and dismissed warnings
• Keyboard-Shortcuts — full cheat sheet

Output

• Preview — preview = reality
• Exporting-Code — generate Python
• Run-Python-Script — preview any external .py
• Python-Import — bring a .py into the project (planned)

Help

• Reporting-Bugs — submit from the app

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See also — Widgets · Getting-Started