Python Text Widget - Displays Nothing on GUI - python

I am trying to populate 2 columns from my heap list into a text widget on my GUI. I have included my code below which does the same. self.top5 is my list which displays the first 5 elements sorted in descending order
self.tableSize = 25
self.hashTable = [[] for i in range(25)]
self.top5 = [(0,0) * 5]
After creating heap,validating hashkey,appending etc
self.top5 = (heapq.nlargest(5,heap)
self.text.tag_configure('big',foreground = '#5C0000',font('Verdana',9,'bold'))
self.text.tag_configure('sub',foreground = '#000000',font('Verdana',9,'bold'))
self.text.tag_configure('val',foreground = '#000000',font =('Verdana',9))
self.text.insert(INSERT,"\nEMP STATISTICS:",'big')
self.text.insert(END,"\n")
self.text.insert(INSERT,"EMP NUMBER:",'sub')
self.text.insert(END,"\t")
self.text.insert(INSERT,self.eID,'val')
self.text.insert(END,",")
self.text.insert(INSERT,"EMP NAME:",'sub')
self.text.insert(END,"\t")
self.text.insert(INSERT,self.eName,'val')
self.text.insert(END,",")
for k in self.top5:
self.text.insert(INSERT,k[0],'val')
self.text.insert(END, "\t\t")
self.text.insert(INSERT,k[1],'val')
self.text.insert(END,"\t\t\t")`
When i run my program, somehow nothing comes up on my screen. Though there is no error. Also, I am inserting first into my heapq and then fetching the top5 details sorted using nlargest.
Can someone please explain why am I not able to see any data on my GUI? When I use print statements at certain checkpoints, it works and I can definitely see proper output on terminal. I am a newbie, pardon me if it's too silly/obvious.

I'm pretty sure in order to display a GUI you need:
root = tkinter.Tk()
root.title("YOUR TITLE HERE")
And then you need to use pack() after whatever you want to be displayed on the GUI and once that's done you need root.mainloop() to display the GUI altogether.

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First sorry if I am missing anything.and sorry about the format, new to stackoverflow
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I have tried a lot of things and nothing seam to work.
I am dynamical creating the tree as follows
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How to refresh or update frame after value changes in text file using Python/Tkinter

So basically I am reading a valuefrom a text file which is displayed on the Profile frame using a label.
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Also you need to fix the following issues in your code:
Remove calling self.view_allowance() inside view_allowance() in Profile class as it will cause infinite recursion problem.
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EDIT: here's a small representation of what i have tried:
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self.table.cellClicked.connect(self.cell_was_clicked)
could be in your setup code,
and the function cell_was_clicked might be something like
def cell_was_clicked(self, row, column):
print("Row %d and Column %d was clicked" % (row, column))
item = self.table.itemAt(row, column)
self.ID = item.text()
I've not used currentRow and currentColumn as you want a response on the click. This function is documented here (sorry, I prefer pyside - it's pretty much the same as PyQT). Note also itemAt instead of just item - as you will get the item at the cell, not it's contents. Use the .text() function of QTableWidgetItem to get at the contents.
Note - this is using 'slots and signals' and in particular the 'new style'. As you're using PyQT4 and Python 3 you should have no trouble with 'new stuff' :-)
You might consider browsing a slots and signals tutorial - that might straighten a few of these abstract concepts out. Good luck!
here is the code that worked for me:
def get_selected_cell_value():
current_row = self.sold_items_details_table.currentRow()
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Finding the currently selected tab of Ttk Notebook

I have a Ttk Notebook widget containing 8 Frames - so, 8 tabs. Each frame contains a Text widget. I have a button outside the Notebook widget, and I want to insert text into the current tabs Text widget when this button is pressed.
This would seem to require working out which widget in the Notebook is currently selected, but I can't seem to find how to do this. How would I find the currently selected tab?
Alternatively, how can I implement what I want to?
If it helps, here's the code for my notebook:
self.nb = Notebook(master)
self.nb.pack(fill='both', expand='yes', padx=10, pady=10)
self.frames = []
self.texts = []
for i in xrange(8):
self.frames.append(Frame())
self.nb.add(self.frames[i])
self.texts.append(Text(self.frames[i]))
self.texts[i].pack(fill='both')
You can retrieve the selected tab through select method. However, this method returns a tab_id which is not much useful as is. index convert it to the number of the selected tab.
>>> nb.select()
'.4299842480.4300630784'
>>> nb.index(nb.select())
2
Note that you coud also get more information about the selected tab using tab
>>> nb.tab(nb.select(), "text")
'mytab2'
You might look at Notebook reference documentation : http://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.ttk.html#notebook
You can get currently selected tab using the "current" keyword:
noteBook.index("current")
Check this website:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/ttk.html#tab-identifiers
24.2.5.3. Tab Identifiers
There are two simple ways to see which tab is selected:
nb.select() # returns the Tab NAME (string) of the current selection
and
nb.index('current') # returns the Tab INDEX (number) of the current selection
The .select() method can also be used to select which tab is currently active, via nb.select(tabId). Without the arg, it returns the tabId (in "name" form) of the current selection.
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When there are no tabs, .select() returns an empty string, but .index('current') throws an exception. So, if you want the index, I would say
if nb.select():
idx = nb.index('current')
is the best way to go.
In your particular case, you would probably want to grab the current notebook tab name and then convert that name into the actual child text widget, via the nametowidget() method, for manipulation. So...
tabName = notebook.select()
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I am not a expert at all but hope i can help with some "fresh eyes".
I imagine it could be something involving
def buttonclick():
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#Print your text into the somevariable notebook could be
#something like(not sure about the syntax):
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focusednotebook.insert('1.0', 'your text here')
yourbutton = Button(parent, text = "button name", command = buttonclick)
yourbutton.pack()
Hope it works or get you in the right direction.
Please feel free to edit as I am fairly new here amd with python :-)
Getting the tageted tab in tk.Notebook it's easy all you have to do is to use the notebook object and target the index of the current tab. This can be done as follows
# creating a notebook object
notebook = ttk.Notebook(root, height=height, width=width, padding=20)
# Adding tabs
notebook.add(bin_tab, text="Binary Conversion")
notebook.add(oct_tab, text="Octal Conversion")
notebook.add(hex_tab, text="Hexadecimal Conversion")
print(notebook.index("current")) # returns 0, 1, 2depending on how many tabs you have in my case i have 3 which means index from 0 to 2

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