I'm trying to get a button to dissapear when you click it, and other buttons to appear. Then when the "back" button is clicked, I want the newer buttons to dissapear again, and the original button to appear again.
The problem is that I don't know how to make a function retrieve information from another function. If I try to do anything to the search_button in the search(event) function, the search_button is not defined because it was only defined in the main() function.
import tkinter as tk
window = tk.Tk()
def search(event):
#insert "delete search_button" logic here
easy_button = tk.Button(window, text = "Easy")
easy_button.bind("<Button-1>", easy_search)
easy_button.pack()
back_button = tk.Button(window, text = "Back")
back_button.bind("<Button-1>", back_button1) #had to put 1 on end here. It seems back_button is predefined as an object
back_button.pack()
def easy_search(event):
#does a bunch of stuff that doesn't matter for this question
pass
def back_button1(event):
#this should delete easy_button and reinitiate search_button
pass
def main():
search_button = tk.Button(window, text = "Search")
search_button.bind("<Button-1>", search)
search_button.pack()
main()
window.mainloop()
The easiest way is to make everything into a class, in which all your functions could share the same self namespace. And that if you want to bind the button pressed with another function, use 'command' instead, unless you're actually using the event.
That will come together to this:
import tkinter as tk
window = tk.Tk()
class Search:
def __init__(self):
self.search_button = tk.Button(window, text = "Search")
self.search_button['command'] = self.search
self.search_button.pack()
def search(self):
self.search_button.pack_forget() # or .destroy() if you're never going to use it again
self.easy_button = tk.Button(window, text = "Easy")
self.easy_button['command'] = self.easy_search
self.easy_button.pack()
self.back_button = tk.Button(window, text = "Back")
self.back_button['command'] = self.back_button1
self.back_button.pack()
def easy_search(self):
#does a bunch of stuff that doesn't matter for this question
pass
def back_button1(self):
#this should delete easy_button and reinitiate search_button
pass
widgets = Search()
window.mainloop()
There you can call the widget's destroy or pack_forget command.
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I want to write a program where after a user enters text and clicks a button, the text becomes a label and the button text is changed. My code is:
# Imports
import os, sys
import tkinter
"""
Tkinter program 1
text box + button + label
"""
# Button Entry
def enter(inputtedinfo, randvar, EnterMessage):
randvar = inputtedinfo.get()
EnterMessage = "Submitted!"
# Main Function
def main():
something = tkinter.Tk()
something.title("My First Tkinter Window")
something.geometry("600x400")
randvar = ""
EnterMessage = "Enter"
inputtedinfo = tkinter.StringVar()
userLabel = tkinter.Label(something, text = randvar)
userEntry = tkinter.Entry(something, textvariable = inputtedinfo)
userButton = tkinter.Button(something, text = EnterMessage, command = enter(inputtedinfo, randvar, EnterMessage))
userEntry.grid(row=0,column=0)
userLabel.grid(row=0,column=1)
userButton.grid(row=0,column=2)
something.mainloop()
sys.exit(0)
if(__name__ == "__main__"):
main()
The user input works, but clicking the button does nothing despite the fact that it is supposed to change the variables for the button and label displays. Did I mess up somewhere?
The command argument takes the name of a function. If you write the complete call with arguments, it's not the name of the function but whatever is returned by this exact function call. So, your button will not work. It will have the command None.
In order to do what you want to do, you have to make the StringVar()s accessible to the function you are calling. So, you can both get the contents of the entry and change the values of the button and the label. To do this, best add the string variables and the widgets as attributes to the toplevel you already created (something). So, they stay available to all functions and you can get and change information:
# Button Entry
def enter():
something.randvar.set(something.inputtedinfo.get())
something.userButton["text"] = "Submitted!"
# Main Function
def main():
global something
something = tkinter.Tk()
something.title("My First Tkinter Window")
something.geometry("600x400")
something.randvar = tkinter.StringVar()
something.randvar.set("")
EnterMessage = "Enter"
something.inputtedinfo = tkinter.StringVar()
userLabel = tkinter.Label(something, textvariable = something.randvar)
something.userEntry = tkinter.Entry(something, textvariable = something.inputtedinfo)
something.userButton = tkinter.Button(something, text = EnterMessage, command = enter)
something.userEntry.grid(row=0,column=0)
userLabel.grid(row=0,column=1)
something.userButton.grid(row=0,column=2)
something.mainloop()
if(__name__ == "__main__"):
main()
There are few issues in your code:
assign string to textvariable, should use StringVar instead
command=enter(...) will execute enter(...) immediately and then assign None to command option, should use lambda instead
updating strings inside enter() does not automatically update the label and the button, should use .set() on the StirngVar instead
Below is modified code:
def enter(inputtedinfo, randvar, EnterMessage):
# used .set() to update StringVar
randvar.set(inputtedinfo.get())
EnterMessage.set("Submitted!")
def main():
something = tkinter.Tk()
something.title("My First Tkinter Window")
something.geometry("600x400")
randvar = tkinter.StringVar() # changed to StringVar()
EnterMessage = tkinter.StringVar(value="Enter") # changed to StringVar()
inputtedinfo = tkinter.StringVar()
userLabel = tkinter.Label(something, textvariable=randvar) # used textvariable instead of text option
userEntry = tkinter.Entry(something, textvariable=inputtedinfo)
userButton = tkinter.Button(something, textvariable=EnterMessage, command=lambda: enter(inputtedinfo, randvar, EnterMessage))
userEntry.grid(row=0,column=0)
userLabel.grid(row=0,column=1)
userButton.grid(row=0,column=2)
something.mainloop()
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So i am trying to get an text input for my program but tkinter doesn't seem to register it,
and i don't know what i have done wrong
window = self.newWindow(value)
label = tk.Label(window, text="Intfix to Postfix Convert")
label.place(x=0, y=20)
e1 = tk.Entry(window)
text = e1.get()
e1.place(x=0, y=50)
rezultat = tk.Text(window, width=20, height=3)
rezultat.place(x=0, y=80)
button = tk.Button(window, text="Enter")
button.place(x=127, y=46)
button.bind("<Double-Button-1>", self.passValue(rezultat, text))
My code looks something like this. Everything else is working the self.newWindow(value) is just
a function that creates a new window from the main one
so i said text=e1.get() but i ran the debbuger and it says it is an empty string and i want to pass this text through the function passValue()(a function that passes the value to the controller), i used button.bind() to do that. Is that ok?
I tested it by putting a default value at text like text="My name" and it did pass the value so that should be in order but i don't know why doesn't it get it from the entry box like it should.
I even tried to do e1.insert(0,"some random thing") and text= e1.get() and it did get it so i think there's a problem with the input.
Do i need to use some special kind of input function?
The whole code:
class Gui:
def __init__(self, controller):
self.main = tk.Tk()
self.main.title("DSA Quiz Helper")
self.__controller = controller
def IntFixPostExecute(self, event):
widget = event.widget
selection = widget.curselection()
value = widget.get(selection[0])
self.IntfixPostfixWindow(value)
def mainWindow(self):
self.main.geometry("800x500")
# to do scrollbar
lb = tk.Listbox(self.main, width=50, height=30)
lb.insert(1, "Intfix and Postfix Calculator")
lb.insert(2, "Something else")
lb.bind("<Double-Button-1>", self.IntFixPostExecute)
lb.pack()
def IntfixPostfixWindow(self, value):
window = self.newWindow(value)
label = tk.Label(window, text="Intfix to Postfix Convert")
label.place(x=0, y=20)
e1 = tk.Entry(window)
text = e1.get()
e1.place(x=0, y=50)
rezultat = tk.Text(window, width=20, height=3)
rezultat.place(x=0, y=80)
button = tk.Button(window, text="Enter")
button.place(x=127, y=46)
button.bind("<Double-Button-1>", self.passValue(rezultat, text))
print(text)
def passValue(self, rezultat, value):
returnValue = self.__controller.InfixToPostC(rezultat, value)
rezultat.insert(tk.INSERT, returnValue)
def newWindow(self, msg):
newwind = tk.Toplevel(self.main)
q1 = tk.Frame(newwind)
q1.pack()
newwind.geometry("500x230")
return newwind
def run(self):
self.mainWindow()
self.main.mainloop()
if i set this manually it works. I don't understand why i doesn't work from entrybox input
text = tk.StringVar()
e1 = tk.Entry(window, textvariable=text)
text.set("x+y*2")
text = e1.get()
e1.place(x=0, y=50)
I think i figured it out (correct me if i am wrong). I think there is a problem
with the button because as soon as a newwindow is open, the button automatically clicks itself, when at first in the entry box there is no text written yet(so it sends to the controller with the initial text(which is empty)). The problem is why the button auto-clicks itself( or anyway auto-runs the function passValue) and why after i input the text and click the button again it does nothing(so as i understand it works only one time and auto-runs itself, at first there is no text in entrybox and the button auto-runs itself,therefore passing an empty string
You should use entryname.get() to get the text that is inside that entry instead of declaring stringVar() and making that much more unreadable and hard to comprehend and to work with. But this is my point of view! – Tiago Oliveira 48 mins ago
I think what is happening is that u use the method right after declaring the entry widget wich means u are going to get a "" empty string because that's nothing that was written there, u need to replace on the command parameter with entryname.get() instead of declaring variable = entryname.get() and passing that as parameter wich will always be empty! Hope this helps!
I was writing a GUI library in Python based on tkinter and I was designing and building all the widgets, but I have come to the PopUp menus.
Due that tkinter picks system menus and this can't be customized, I write the following code to make a frame where I can put my customized buttons in and works as a popup.
from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
w = Label(root, text="Right-click to display menu", width=40, height=20)
w.place(x=0)
def function1():
print('function1 activated')
# create a menu
f = Frame(root,width=80,height=60,background='green')
b2 = Button(f,text='function',command=function1)
b2.pack()
def open_popup(event):
try:
f.place(x=event.x, y=event.y)
root.after(1)
f.focus_set()
w.bind_all("<Button-1>",close_popup)
except:
print("Can't open popup menu")
def close_popup(event):
try:
f.place_forget()
root.after(1)
w.unbind_all("<Button-1>")
except:
print("Can't close popup menu")
w.bind("<Button-3>", open_popup)
b = Button(root, text="Quit", command=root.destroy)
b.pack()
root.mainloop()
Everything works well, if I clicked with the mouse right-button the popup menu appears, and if I clicked on every other part the popup menu dissapears.
The problem is that, due to bind_all when I press the button of my popup menu, function1 doesn't run and the event handler closes the popup. I have tried with only bind but this time, function1 runs and the event handler doesn't activates.
Is there anyway I can do that?
Thanks
I would do this using a tracking variable.
We can first assign None to f as a way to check if f is currently set up.
If f is not None then we create frame and button. Then when the function is activated we can run function and destroy the frame the button was in. This also destroys the button and then we set f back to None for out next use.
Take a look at the below reworked example.
Let me know if you have any questions.
from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
w = Label(root, text="Right-click to display menu", width=40, height=20)
w.place(x=0)
f = None # Tracking F to see if it is None or not.
def function1():
global f
print('function1 activated')
# add this to the end of the function to destroy the frame and reset f
if f != None:
f.destroy()
f = None
def open_popup(event):
global f
# if f is None then create frame and button else don't
if f == None:
f = Frame(root,width=80,height=60,background='green')
f.place(x=event.x, y=event.y)
b2 = Button(f,text='function',command=function1)
b2.pack()
else:
print("Can't open popup menu")
w.bind("<Button-3>", open_popup)
b = Button(root, text="Quit", command=root.destroy)
b.pack()
root.mainloop()
I found a way to do this without modifying so much the code, the idea of the tracking variable was good but doesn't solve all the problems, and this code does.
from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
w = Label(root, text="Right-click to display menu", width=40, height=20)
w.pack()
def function1():
print('function1 activated')
try:
f.place_forget()
except:
pass
# create a menu
f = Frame(root,width=80,height=60,background='green')
b2 = Button(f,text='function',command=function1)
b2.place(x=0,y=5)
def open_popup(event):
try:
f.place(x=event.x, y=event.y)
root.after(1)
f.focus_set()
except:
pass
def close_popup(event):
try:
f.place_forget()
root.after(1)
w.unbind_all("<Button-1>")
except:
pass
def enable_depopup(event):
w.bind_all("<Button-1>",close_popup)
def disable_depopup(event):
w.unbind_all("<Button-1>")
w.bind("<Button-3>", open_popup)
w.bind("<Motion>", enable_depopup)
f.bind("<Motion>", disable_depopup)
b = Button(root, text="Quit", command=root.destroy)
b.pack()
root.mainloop()
In this way, everytime I move the mouse over the parent window, the <Button-1> of the mouse is binded to close the popup menu.
And doing a trick, that is place the button of the menu a few pixels down, this let the mouse pass through the popup frame to reach the button and disable the <Button-1> binding letting me click the button.
The function of the button activate the place_forget method of the frame, so everything works correctly.
I want a button in my window to open a new window and close the previous one. Is it possible to have one button do both of these? I've tried in the following code, but it hasn't worked, just told me that window is not defined:
import tkinter
def window1():
window = tkinter.Tk()
tkinter.Button(window, text = "Next", command = window2).pack()
window.mainloop()
def window2():
window.destroy() #This is where the error is
menu = tkinter.Tk()
etc, etc, etc
window1()
First, you need to return the window object from the first function:
def window1():
window = tkinter.Tk()
tkinter.Button(window, text = "Next", command = lambda: window2(window)).pack()
window.mainloop()
return window
Then, you need to pass the window as an argument to your function:
def window2(window):
window.destroy()
menu = tkinter.Tk()
And then call window1 with:
window = window1()
and click the button to destroy it and do the rest
This is an example using Toplevels, which is usually a better choice than creating, destroying, re-creating Tk() instances. The unique Toplevel ID is passed to the close_it function using partial(). You would, of course, combine them or have the close function call the open function.
try:
import Tkinter as tk ## Python 2.x
except ImportError:
import tkinter as tk ## Python 3.x
from functools import partial
class OpenToplevels():
""" open and close additional Toplevels with a button
"""
def __init__(self):
self.root = tk.Tk()
self.button_ctr=0
but=tk.Button(self.root, text="Open a Toplevel",
command=self.open_another)
but.grid(row=0, column=0)
tk.Button(self.root, text="Exit Tkinter", bg="red",
command=self.root.quit).grid(row=1, column=0, sticky="we")
self.root.mainloop()
def close_it(self, id):
id.destroy()
def open_another(self):
self.button_ctr += 1
id = tk.Toplevel(self.root)
id.title("Toplevel #%d" % (self.button_ctr))
tk.Button(id, text="Close Toplevel #%d" % (self.button_ctr),
command=partial(self.close_it, id),
bg="orange", width=20).grid(row=1, column=0)
Ot=OpenToplevels()
Yes. Is possible. But you'll need to def that:
def window1:
blablabla
blablabla
def window2:
window2.destroy() <-- Here where the error was
How you noticed, put your name of window what you want Destroy and it will work!
using Python3
You could use a "global" such as:
root = Tk()
root.title('This is the root window')
def window_create():
global window_one
window_one = Tk()
window_one.title('This is window 1')
Then, from any function (or elsewhere) when you want to destroy window_one, do:
def window_destroyer():
window_one.destroy()
You could call your window_destroyer function from a button anywhere such as root which the example shows:
kill_window_btn = Button(root, text="Destroy", command=window_destroyer).pack()
Of course, follow your own naming conventions. :)
It seems to me, just 'global window_one' would solve it.
When I press the button, I want it to get the Entry and -for future things- use it in another function.
import tkinter
def ButtonAction():
MyEntry = ent.get() #this is the variable I wanna use in another function
den = tkinter.Tk()
den.title("Widget Example")
lbl = tkinter.Label(den, text="Write Something")
ent = tkinter.Entry(den)
btn = tkinter.Button(den, text="Get That Something", command = ButtonAction )
lbl.pack()
ent.pack()
btn.pack()
den.mainloop()
print MyEntry #something like this maybe. That's for just example
I will use this thing as a search tool. Entry window will appear, get that "entry" from there and search it in files like:
if MyEntry in files:
#do smth
I know I can handle the problem with using globals but from what I've read it's not recommended as a first solution.
Structure the program using class.
import tkinter
class Prompt:
def button_action(self):
self.my_entry = self.ent.get() #this is the variable I wanna use in another function
def __init__(self, den):
self.lbl = tkinter.Label(den, text="Write Something")
self.ent = tkinter.Entry(den)
self.btn = tkinter.Button(den, text="Get That Something", command=self.button_action)
self.lbl.pack()
self.ent.pack()
self.btn.pack()
den = tkinter.Tk()
den.title("Widget Example")
prompt = Prompt(den)
den.mainloop()
You can access the input using prompt.my_entry later.