Type of Issue (Enhancement, Error, Bug, Question)

Bug

Operating System

MacOS 14.7 (arm)

PySimpleGUI Port (tkinter, Qt, Wx, Web)

tkinter

Versions (NOTE - PSG4 is no longer supported)

Python 3.13.0
PySimpleGUI version: 5.0.7
tcl-tk 9.0.0_1
python-tk 3.13.0

Your Experience In Months or Years (optional)

5+

Years Programming experience overall

10+

Anything else you think would be helpful?

Error reported: _tkinter.TclError: bad option "variable": must be add, info, or remove

Troubleshooting

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Detailed Description

Using Python 3.13 with tcl-tk version 9.0.0_1 causes the error _tkinter.TclError: bad option "variable": must be add, info, or remove

Reverting to Using Python 3.11 with tcl-tk version 8.6.15 works without error

Code To Duplicate

Installing the older version of tcl-tk with python 3.11 allows PySimpleGUI to work, it doesn't seem to work when python 3.12 or python3.13 is used with tcl-tk 9.0.0_1

Sample code from the site was used to test:

import PySimpleGUI as sg

# All the stuff inside your window.
layout = [  [sg.Text('Some text on Row 1')],
            [sg.Text('Enter something on Row 2'), sg.InputText()],
            [sg.Button('Ok'), sg.Button('Cancel')] ]

# Create the Window
window = sg.Window('Window Title', layout)

# Event Loop to process "events" and get the "values" of the inputs
while True:
    event, values = window.read()
    if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED or event == 'Cancel':	# if user closes window or clicks cancel
        break
    print('You entered ', values[0])

window.close()

Watcha Makin?

Testing PySimpleGUI