So my computing class are making a xmas card in python, and for one of the bits there is going to be a text box with a message, but how do I make the background alternate from green and red ?
If someone would be able to help that would be amazing :)
from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
root.title("Xmas Message")
#command for the button
def test_com():
#removing the button
act_btn.grid_remove()
#adding the textbox for the message
msg_box = Text(root, height = 1, width = 30)
msg_box.grid(row=0, column=0)
#adding the message
msg_box.insert(END, "Happy Xmas")
#changing the background to green
msg_box.config(background="green")
#changing the background to red
msg_box.config(background="red")
root.after(250, test_com)
#button for activating the command
act_btn = Button(root, text = "1", command = test_com)
act_btn.grid(row=0, column=0)
root.mainloop()
Create a change_color callback that alternates the text box's color, and uses after to call itself a second in the future.
Sample implementation:
from tkinter import *
def change_color():
current_color = box.cget("background")
next_color = "green" if current_color == "red" else "red"
box.config(background=next_color)
root.after(1000, change_color)
root = Tk()
box = Text(root, background="green")
box.pack()
change_color()
root.mainloop()
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from tkinter import *
parent = Tk()
parent.geometry('500x500')
parent.title('Test in progress...')
parent.attributes('-alpha',0.5)
#parent.attributes('-fullscreen', True)
button1 = Button(parent, text = 'FOUND!',fg='red', command=parent.destroy)
button1.pack()
parent.mainloop()
I want this to flash translucent-red on fullscreen without effecting the user abilty to select things.
Using some help from this answer I think I have something to help you. You need to have a function that will control the changes to color utilizing .after. It shifts from white transparent to red in a "flashing" like manner. I hope this is in the ballpark for what you want.
from tkinter import *
def change_color():
current_color = parent.cget("bg")
next_color = "white" if current_color == "red" else "red"
parent.config(background=next_color)
parent.after(1000, change_color)
parent = Tk()
parent.config(bg="red")
parent.attributes('-alpha', 0.5)
parent.geometry('500x500')
parent.title('Test in progress...')
button1 = Button(parent, text='FOUND!', fg='red', command=parent.destroy)
button1.pack()
change_color()
parent.mainloop()
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk
root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Tic Tac Toe")
root.geometry("505x500")
root.resizable(0,0)
Blank = tk.PhotoImage(file='Blank.png')
X = tk.PhotoImage(file='X.png')
O = tk.PhotoImage(file='O.png')
def configB(event):
print('hello')
btn1 = tk.Button(root,image=Blank)
btn1.place(x=0,y=0)
btn2 = ttk.Button(image=Blank)
btn2.place(x=165,y=0)
btn3 = ttk.Button(image=Blank)
btn3.place(x=330,y=0)
btn4 = ttk.Button(image=Blank)
btn4.place(x=0,y=165)
btn5 = ttk.Button(image=Blank)
btn5.place(x=165,y=165)
btn6 = ttk.Button(image=Blank)
btn6.place(x=330,y=165)
btn7 = ttk.Button(image=Blank)
btn7.place(x=0,y=330)
btn8 = ttk.Button(image=Blank)
btn8.place(x=165,y=330)
btn9 = ttk.Button(image=Blank)
btn9.place(x=330,y=330)
btn1.bind('<Return>',configB)
root.mainloop()
i want to bind btn1 and i want it to work when i press enter but nothing happens when i press enter as per my code it should print hello .
please help thanks in advance.
As #jasonharper said it will work only if button is focused
btn1.focus()
btn1.bind('<Return>', configB)
and if you click other button then it will not work again
so better bind to main winodw
root.bind('<Return>', configB)
Minimal working code
import tkinter as tk
# --- functions --- # PEP8: lower_case_names
def config_b(event):
print('hello')
# --- main ---
root = tk.Tk()
btn1 = tk.Button(root, text='1')
btn1.pack()
btn1 = tk.Button(root, text='2')
btn1.pack()
#btn1.focus()
#btn1.bind('<Return>', config_b)
root.bind('<Return>', config_b)
root.mainloop()
There is no quick answer to this question.
Buttons must be bound so as to duplicate (as close as possible) normal button behaviour.
This includes changing button relief and colors, then restoring button.
Finally it has to execute the button command.
The following example does this for two buttons.
'button' responds to Mouse 'Button-3'
'buttonX' responds to Key 'Return'
import tkinter as tk
def working():
print("Working...")
def actionPress(event):
event.widget.config(
relief = "sunken",
background = "red",
foreground = "yellow")
def actionRelease(event):
event.widget.config(
relief = "raised",
background = "SystemButtonFace",
foreground = "SystemButtonText")
# activate buttons' command on release
event.widget.invoke()
window = tk.Tk()
button = tk.Button(window, text = "press", command = working)
button.pack()
buttonX = tk.Button(window, text = "pressX", command = working)
buttonX.pack()
# bind returns unique ID
boundP = button.bind("<ButtonPress-3>", actionPress)
boundR = button.bind("<ButtonRelease-3>", actionRelease)
boundXP = buttonX.bind("<KeyPress-Return>", actionPress)
boundXR = buttonX.bind("<KeyRelease-Return>", actionRelease)
# This is how to unbind (if necessary)
# button.unbind(""<ButtonPress-3>", boundP)
# button.unbind(""<ButtonRelease-3>", boundR)
# buttonX.unbind(""<KeyPress-Return>", boundXP)
# buttonX.unbind(""<KeyRelease-Return>", boundXR)
window.mainloop()
You don't need parameter in configB method. Also don't need bind for button1. I also add command in button1 widget. Comment out in line 36 #btn1.bind('<Return>',configB)
def configB():
print('hello')
btn1 = tk.Button(root, command=configB)
Result:
Btw, I don't have png image.
I have some code (as shown below) which prompts the user to select which colour to change the GUI to. But my problem is that it only changes the background. I'd like to know if there's a way to change the background of every label and button at once or do I have to change each label/button individually.
import tkinter
window = tkinter.Tk()
colour_frame = tkinter.Frame(window)
options_frame = tkinter.Frame(window)
def colours():
options_frame.pack_forget()
red.pack()
orange.pack()
back_button.pack()
colour_frame.pack()
def back():
options_frame.pack()
colour_frame.pack_forget()
def make_red():
window.configure(background="red")
def make_orange():
window.configure(background="orange")
colour_button = tkinter.Button(options_frame, text="Appearance", command=colours)
red = tkinter.Button(colour_frame, text="RED", command=make_red)
red.configure(bg = "red")
orange = tkinter.Button(colour_frame, text="ORANGE", command=make_orange)
orange.configure(bg = "orange")
back_button = tkinter.Button(colour_frame, text="Back", command=back)
window.mainloop()
You can make a list containing all your widgets you want to change
myWidgets = [button1, label1, ... ] # List of widgets to change colour
for wid in myWidgets:
wid.configure(bg = newColour)
Here's an example code of changing the background colour of multiple labels at once.
import tkinter as tk
# Change all label backgrounds
def change_colour():
c = user.get() #Get the entered text of the Entry widget
for wid in widget_list:
wid.configure(bg = c)
# Create GUI
root = tk.Tk()
tk.Label(root, text='Enter a colour').pack()
user = tk.Entry(root)
user.pack()
label_frame = tk.Frame(root)
label_frame.pack()
btn = tk.Button(root, text='Change Colour', command = change_colour)
btn.pack()
widget_list = [user, btn] # Add defined widgets to list
#Dynamicly create labels for example
for x in range(10):
lbl = tk.Label(label_frame, text='Label '+str(x))
lbl.pack(side = tk.LEFT)
widget_list.append(lbl) #Add widget object to list
root.mainloop()
Or if you have a Frame already containing all the widgets you want to change, then you can use this instead.
parent_widget.winfo_children() will return a list containing all the widgets stored inside the parent widget
def change_colour():
c = user.get()
for wid in label_frame.winfo_children():
wid.configure(bg = c)
Try using ttk for some of your GUI elements. ttk allows you to create styles for widgets and update the style to all widgets at once (at least for those that have the same style). You may need to mix the usage of ttk and tkinter, but it should make things a bit easier in the long run. Here is an example I made:
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk
root = tk.Tk()
# Creating a style for the buttons
color_style_button = ttk.Style()
color_style_button.configure("color.TButton", foreground="red")
def change_color(color):
# This function changes the style to all buttons using the "color.Button style"
if color == "red":
color_style_button.configure("color.TButton", foreground="red")
elif color == "blue":
color_style_button.configure("color.TButton", foreground="blue")
elif color == "green":
color_style_button.configure("color.TButton", foreground="green")
frame_a = ttk.Frame(root)
frame_a.pack()
red_button = ttk.Button(frame_a, text="Red", command=lambda: change_color("red"), style="color.TButton")
red_button.pack()
blue_button = ttk.Button(frame_a, text="Blue", command=lambda: change_color("blue"), style="color.TButton")
blue_button.pack()
green_button = ttk.Button(frame_a, text="Blue", command=lambda: change_color("green"), style="color.TButton")
green_button.pack()
root.mainloop()
I recommend checking out this site to learn more about ttk and styles.
This is my code below, The button's background is green, but I want to set the button text ("Done") to be white and 12 font.
from tkinter import *
def done(root):
root.destroy()
def panel():
root = Tk()
root.title("PCS Employee Login")
root.geometry('240x320+0+0')
root.configure(bg='white')
buttonDone = Button(root, text="Done", command=lambda: done(root))
buttonDone.configure(bg='green', borderwidth=0)
buttonDone.pack()
root.mainloop()
if __name__ == '__main__':
panel()
A Button's background is the button itself, and its foreground is the text or bitmap on top of it. Use the foreground option as described on Effbot.
This is an extract of code that I used for creating buttons and labels in tkinter. I create three font variables detailing small, normal and large font, then call these variables as needed. For the button and lable colours you can use bg for the background colour and fg for the foreground (text) colour.
LARGE_FONT = ("Verdana", 12)
NORM_FONT = ("Verdana", 10)
SMALL_FONT = ("Verdana", 8)
label = tk.Label(popup, text=msg, font=NORM_FONT, bg='white', justify='left')
B1 = tk.Button(popup, text="Okay", command=popup.destroy, bg='#000000', fg='#ffffff')
This page will give you more options for button configuration.
If I created Tkinter window with some text that filled the whole window and now wanted to replace the window with a new text, is there a way to refresh the window?
For Example:
a= 100
win= Tk()
win.geometry("500x300")
while a > 0:
if a%2 == 0:
lbl = Label (win, bg = "purple")
lbl.pack()
else:
lbl = Label (win, bg = "blue")
lbl.pack()
a= x-1
The problem with this code is that the Tkinter window does not refresh and just provides the end result instead of showing the windows changing colors.
Thanks for the help!
That is not the way to change UI states, because even if you refreshed the window it would be so quick you won't notice, instead change the state, wait some time and change the state again e.g. here I show how to animate color
from Tkinter import *
index = 0
def changeColor():
global index
if index%2==0:
label.configure(bg = "purple")
else:
label.configure(bg = "blue")
index+=1
label.after(1000, changeColor)
root = Tk()
mainContainer = Frame(root)
label = Label(mainContainer, text="")
label.configure(text="msg will change every sec")
label.pack(side=LEFT, ipadx=5, ipady=5)
mainContainer.pack()
label.after(1000, changeColor)
root.title("Timed event")
root.mainloop()
This Is How I Do To Update Data From Sql Server in tkinter GUI python3
from tkinter import *
import os
window=Tk()
window.geometry('300x300')
def update():
window.destroy()
os.system('test.py')
Button(window,text="Refresh",command=update)
window.mainloop()