user-interfaces

[proud walrus]

stretch it to the frame's size

[digital rose]

expand it?

# getting the canvas size and then expanding image accordingly.
self.canvas_width = self.canvas.winfo_width()
self.canvas_height = self.canvas.winfo_height()

# rendering the image onto the canvas.
self.canvas.create_image(0, 0, self.canvas_width, self.canvas_height)

@proud walrus

[proud walrus]

i see, thank you! now i can have textures and stuff.

can i just put them on a regular frame or i have to create a canvas? @digital rose

[digital rose]

afaik, frame objects are containers and do not render objects on them

[proud walrus]

oh

[digital rose]

plus, it is better to stick with a canvas.

[proud walrus]

why?

[digital rose]

because you can modify an image's size.

according to what you want.

[proud walrus]

oh. well, i never used the canvas thingy... imma go look at it. thank you for the help

[digital rose]

no problem. 👍

[digital rose]

Hi ! Do someone know how to stick the "ms" text near the entry box ?

(using tkinter)

Viseur tu es francais non d'ailleurs ?

@digital rose

self.ms_text = Label(window, text = "ms" .. )
self.ms_text.place(x = .. , y = ..)

use .place()

and enter coordinates, according to the cooldown, and delay entry widgets.

[digital rose]

je suis "un peu" francais 😅

tricky way, but works as well thanks !

tkinter gui is very weird sometimes

[digital rose]

comment ca ?

[digital rose]

ca ne fait rien 😅

its getting off-topic, so

yeah 😂

[digital rose]

How a label content can be updated ?

Its not working with this way

nvm

[modern marsh]

does place() scale well on resizing the window?

if not how do you adjust it such that it does

[digital rose]

Is it possible to create a foldable listbox ?

[digital rose]

@modern marsh if you wish to scale a widget along a particular window dimension, use .pack(*args) instead.

widget.pack(side=TOP, expand=True, fill = .. .. )

Now, fill can take in a bunch of arguments, namely X, Y, and BOTH

Which are tk constants.

X allows the widget to scale to fit with the window's maximum horizontal size, Y does that for Vertical, and BOTH fits the widget onto the window.

[digital rose]

myLabel.config( text = "the text you want to render now.")

@digital rose

got it

[modern marsh]

thanks :)

[digital rose]

No problem :D

[open lintel]

whats wrong with this why wont my tkinter window open

?

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()

button = tk.Button(root, text="Test button", bg='blue', fg='red')
button.pack()

root.mainloop()

[digital rose]

@open lintel the code is fine, check your tkinter installation.

[open lintel]

im usign pycharm does this affect it becuase usally i have to go to settings then python interputer then install tkinter but i cannot find tkinter

[digital rose]

Try running the same code in IDLE.

[open lintel]

ok

yeah it does work in the IDLE

but why not pycharm

[digital rose]

PyCharm mustve messed up your tkinter install locations.

Small problem, when the button is pressed it does not shows the message box:

def check_input_widgets_contents(self):
        if self.channel_input_data == "":
            messagebox.showinfo("showinfo", "Information")
...
starter = Button(self.master, text="Start", command=self.check_input_widgets_contents).grid(row=11, column=1)

but the function is executed

[open lintel]

tkinter should be a module over here i think

[digital rose]

Dont use .grid in the same line. @digital rose

Use that in a separate line.

[open lintel]

but i can't find it

[digital rose]

Or it will become a None object.

ikr but it does not solve my issue

Small problem, when the button is pressed it does not shows the message box:

def check_input_widgets_contents(self):
        if self.channel_input_data == "":
            messagebox.showinfo("showinfo", "Information")
...
starter = Button(self.master, text="Start", command=self.check_input_widgets_contents).grid(row=11, column=1)

We dont need the object here

Must be something with channel input data.

And object is starter itself.

the function is executed

oh my bad

the issue is channel ...

Yes.

[open lintel]

How do i fix tkinter not working in pycharm

no my tkinter window doces not open

here is the code

root = tk.Tk()

canvas = tk.canvis

button = tk.Button(root, text="Test button", bg='blue', fg='red')
button.pack()

root.mainloop()```

[blissful sphinx]

canvas = tk.canvis

i think you need parentheses

[digital rose]

I have a question, I am trying to update an IntVar value and get its value but it does not work, code below:

 def set_proxy_checkbox_value(self):
        if self.proxy_checkbox_value.get() == 0:
            self.proxy_checkbox_value.set(1)

        if self.proxy_checkbox_value.get() == 1:
            self.proxy_checkbox_value.set(0)

    def check_input_widgets_contents(self):
        if self.proxy_checkbox_value.get() == 0:
            print("unchecked")
        else:
            print("checked")
...
proxies_checkbox = Checkbutton(self.master, text="Use proxies", command=self.set_proxy_checkbox_value)
proxies_checkbox.grid(
  row=5, column=1, sticky=SW
)
 self.proxy_checkbox_value.set(0)

The value is still 0...

[open lintel]

i get none

see

wdym

[digital rose]

Please ?

when do i use that ?

[open lintel]

the tkinter window still doesn't open

huh

[digital rose]

So ?

[open lintel]

did you not read line 12

[unique forge]

I dont think so

bruh

tkinter is built in

you dont need to install it

and it wont show up in your packages

[open lintel]

so whats wrong with my code

is it my IDLE

[digital rose]

@digital rose maybe you'll be able to help me

Helllo

anyone who has experience with pyqt who can give me advice on how to create a pause and play button in one.

Like these

Where when I click pause it show play vice versa

[modern marsh]

How did you align those like that :0

Can you please show your code for the layout addition part

[digital rose]

I didn't

its' a google imagea

[modern marsh]

Oh :(

[unique forge]

you could use a QPushButton

and change the pixmap icon every time you press it

[ivory ember]

you could subclass a QPushButton and have a boolean indicating the state

[digital rose]

I'm thinking how I might do that

[digital rose]

how do you do that

if any of you know how please dm me

[unique forge]

ill be able to help you tomorrow

[digital rose]

Thanks a lot mate take care

[digital rose]

var.set('new value')

@digital rose

[digital rose]

I fixed alr but thx

[proud walrus]

anyway to have a system notification in python?

nevermind, i found a working library called notify2

[fair harness]

hi guys, i want to use pyqt5, i pip installed pyqt5 and pyqt5-tools

but

pyqt5_tools file incomplete

i tried to reinstall but it doesnt work

im getting this error too

[digital rose]

@digital rose There is no such built-in method with turtle. You can use tkinter:

from tkinter import *
from tkinter.messagebox import showinfo

window=Tk()
popup=showinfo('Tkinter', 'Is a GUI lib built in python, inherited from Tcl/Tk languages')
window.mainloop()

[twin rapids]

how do i install Tkinter?

[digital rose]

It is pre installed with python.

[twin rapids]

but in linux for chromebook?

when i run a python3 script it does not show

[modern marsh]

how do you install from chrome terminal?

[twin rapids]

Linux (Beta) is a feature that lets you develop software using your Chromebook. You can install Linux command line tools, code editors, and IDEs on your Chromebook. These can be used to write code, create apps, and more.

[modern marsh]

sure but

ah nvm, idk about chromebooks

sorry

[twin rapids]

oh ok

i have tkinter 0.1.0

[digital rose]

@twin rapids im not sure about this, but heres that:

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

Im not sure about this, but might as well try this. Also, not sure if that's tk or tkinter.

[twin rapids]

oh ok

[digital rose]

Sorry, havent dealt much with chromebooks.

[twin rapids]

its ok

i did it!

thanks for help

[digital rose]

No worries.

[proud walrus]

making a gui is fun.

[digital rose]

Hello I have a problem, I am trying to update a label but it does not works (no error):

self.loaded_proxies = Label(self.master, text="Proxies: 0")
self.loaded_proxies.grid(row=10, column=1)
self.loaded_proxies_array.append(proxy)
self.loaded_proxies_count += 1
self.loaded_proxies.configure(text="Proxies: " + str(self.loaded_proxies_count))

[inner nest]

@digital rose use textvariable argument instead of text then you can use update_idletasks() method to update the variable

[digital rose]

textvariable where ?

on both text ?

textvariable does not works

[inner nest]

proxy = StringVar("Proxies : 0")
self.loaded_proxies = Label(self.master, textvariable=proxy)
proxy.set("Proxies : "+ str(proxy_data))
self.loaded_proxies.update_idletasks()

something like that

[digital rose]

oh this way

Not working

Here is the code:

load_proxies_button = Button(self.master, text="Load proxies", command=self.load_proxies).grid(row=9, column=1)
self.loaded_proxies_string = StringVar()
self.loaded_proxies_string.set("Proxies: 0")
self.loaded_proxies = Label(self.master, textvariable=self.loaded_proxies_string)
self.loaded_proxies.grid(row=10, column=1)
...
self.loaded_proxies_array.append(proxy)
self.loaded_proxies_count += 1
self.loaded_proxies_string.set("Proxies: " + str(self.loaded_proxies_count))
self.loaded_proxies.update_idletasks

Still no errors but just not working

the code for loading the proxy's running well but yeah still have the issue

[digital rose]

@inner nest an idea ?

[inner nest]

dont forget the parenthesis of idletasks method

self.loaded_proxies.update_idletasks()

[digital rose]

THANK YOU😘😻

[split meadow]

Guys I'm new in Python, what would you recommend to build a user interface for my python project?

[inner nest]

@split meadow tkinter, it's an easy builtin lib for python : https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html

[split meadow]

Thank you so much!!! I really appreciate this!!

[digital rose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXPyB4XeYLA&t=11818s&ab_channel=freeCodeCamp.org

[split meadow]

[autumn badge]

Anyone use appJar?

[fair harness]

i have a gui app using tkinter, but its taking too much cpu and often crashes. thats probably because i have a dynamic clock. what is the best way to make a gui that has dynamically changing labels on screen?

[digital rose]

# considering you have a label named MyLabel,
def changeLabelAfter3Seconds():
    MyLabel.config(text = "new text")
    window_name.after(3000, changeLabelAfter3Seconds)

@fair harness

[fair harness]

    current_time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M:%S')
    clock_lbl = Label(root, font="calibri 60", text=current_time)
    clock_lbl.after(999, clock)
    clock_lbl.grid(row=0, column=1)

this is my code

[digital rose]

what youre doing here, is creating and grid-ing the label after every 1 second.

# do this:

# create the label outside of clock()
clock_lbl = Label(root, font="calibri 60", text="")
clock_lbl.grid(row=0, column=1)

def clock():
    current_time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M:%S')
    clock_lbl.config(text = current_time)
    window.after(999, clock)

use after() with the window, rather than the widget.

@fair harness

so that you update the label, rather than re -create it every second.

[fair harness]

since text=current_time

is outside

getting error

[digital rose]

set that to ""

i just copy - pasted it so.

[fair harness]

ok i did

what is windowbtw? i have no such object

[digital rose]

you have not done something like this:

root = Tk()

?

[fair harness]

i have

[digital rose]

then replace window with whatever it is!

[digital rose]

Tk() is a window instance after all.

[fair harness]

ok!

[digital rose]

then say

root.after(999, clock)

[fair harness]

thx

i have a similiar block that needs to be updated, i will try to do the same for it

@digital rose it works like a charm!

thanks

[digital rose]

no problem. feel free to dm/ping me for any help!

[eager tiger]

I’m so frustrated with tkinter I’m going to sleep now. But as a quick question, why would root.destroy() cause an infinite spinning icon on my Mac. It acts like it wants to close but never does, so I have to force quite it. It worked once then I closed my laptop and came back to it and it’s not working, code didn’t change. I even tried restarting my laptop. Admittedly I’m using pyenv and changed a line in my Python-build script just to get tkinter working in the first place. I had to point pyenv to my homebrew tcl-tk installation instead of the deprecated system version. I’m feeling like it has dieting to do with pyenv. Do you think I Should redownload the homebrew version?

Something *

[digital rose]

i do think this should be the case. you should never tamper with build scripts. it could be an error with the OS itself.

i have seen many people complaining about this, and it usually has to do with the tk version itself. https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/

[eager tiger]

I’m kinda over pyenv and the issues I have with it what’s an alternative to using different Python versions with different virtual environments.

[digital rose]

If you are using macOS 10.6 or later, the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5 has serious bugs that can cause application crashes. If you wish to use IDLE or Tkinter, do not use the Apple-supplied Pythons. Instead, install and use a newer version of Python from python.org or a third-party distributor that supplies or links with a newer version of Tcl/Tk.

this is what the docs say.

[digital rose]

try sticking to idle for the moment, and at the most, any full fledged editor, probably VS code, so that you have no issues with running your app at the most.

[eager tiger]

Yeah that’s interesting. Thank you. I just liked pyenv for using different Python versions, but seems like there’s always these weird workarounds with it

I use pycharm

[digital rose]

yes. theres no problem with tkinter, its just because of the pre installed python that comes with macOS i think.

you can refer to the link for further help, as I wont be the best help when it comes to MacOS.

[eager tiger]

Well anyway. Thanks for being a sounding board. Have a great day!

[kindred yarrow]

Is kivy really the best user interface framework thing

Or kivymd

[digital rose]

Hello, I have a little problem.
I created a radiobutton and they are two values related to it but somehow when I preset a value it does not works.
Here is the code:

attack_type = StringVar()
follow_attack_type = Radiobutton(self.master, text="Follow", value="Follow", var=attack_type).grid(row=0, column=0)
unfollow_attack_type = Radiobutton(self.master, text="Unfollow", value="Unfollow", var=attack_type).grid(row=0, column=1)
attack_type.set("Unfollow")

hold on

gonna try

AttributeError: 'StringVar' object has no attribute 'current' ??

@digital rose

[digital rose]

this does not even exist lol

[digital rose]

can someone help me ?

this does not work:

attack_type = StringVar(self.master, "1")
        follow_attack_type = Radiobutton(self.master, text="Follow", value="1", var=attack_type).grid(row=0, column=0)
        unfollow_attack_type = Radiobutton(self.master, text="Unfollow", value="2", var=attack_type).grid(row=0, column=1)
        attack_type.set("1")

[digital rose]

please

[twin rapids]

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()
bar = Canvas()
button = Button(window, border='1.5').place(x = 10, y=10)

bar.create_rectangle(0, 380, 800, 400, fill="#000000")
window.geometry('800x400')

window.resizable(width = False, height = False)
window.mainloop()

why wont it draw a rectange?

[digital rose]

You havent created the canvas fully. @twin rapids
Add:

# leave the earlier code unchanged
bar=Canvas(window, height=800, width=800)
bar.pack(side=TOP)
# leave the rest unchanged

[twin rapids]

ohh

ok

omg thank you

[digital rose]

Just a suggestion here, do not use .place() in the same line, it makes the widget a None object.

[twin rapids]

ok

[digital rose]

Make them in different lines.

[digital rose]

No worries!

[twin rapids]

why is this a error?

foldersys = Button(window, border="1.5", image = "folder.png", compound = LEFT)

heres my whole code

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()
bar = Canvas(window, height=800, width=800)
button = Button(window, border="1.5", text = "Start")
foldersys = Button(window, border="1.5", image = "folder.png", compound = LEFT)

bar.create_rectangle(0, 350, 800, 400, outline = "#C0C0C0", fill="#C0C0C0")
window.geometry("800x400")
bar.pack(side=TOP) 
button.place(x = 10, y = 358)
foldersys.place(x = 30, y = 358)

window.resizable(width = False, height = False)
window.mainloop()

ill just keep it as a text saying files until someone helps me

[modern marsh]

[Qt] i want to remove the padding between the icons and the top/bottom of the bar

i tried setContentMargins(0, 0, 0, 0) with all related widgets and independently too but to no avail

does anyone know how to fix this?

@ivory ember i need help :P

note that the icon pixmap has been scaled but because of the padding, it does not show as such in the bar

[digital rose]

What is the error @twin rapids

[hidden dock]

https://bpa.st/STBA how to solve this issue?

[twin rapids]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./app.py", line 7, in <module>
    foldersys = Button(window, text = "Files",image = "folder.png", border="1.5")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/tkinter/__init__.py", line 2369, in __init__
    Widget.__init__(self, master, 'button', cnf, kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/tkinter/__init__.py", line 2299, in __init__
    (widgetName, self._w) + extra + self._options(cnf))
_tkinter.TclError: image "folder.png" doesn't exist

@digital rose

[digital rose]

easy to fix

you want to os library to specs your image path with realtive

[twin rapids]

how?

[digital rose]

just take your file.py path then add to it folder.png second I will send code

[twin rapids]

i dont understand

[digital rose]

so you have this files:

proj
|File.py
|folder.png

the actual path is c:\Users\.... so when you type folder.png it's actually not found that file because this is not path this is filename what you want to do tow ways:

1. type the full path of folder.png like c:\proj\folder.png
2. or if you want to make this app find folder.png every where on any pc you will need realtive path and this path will find the python script path then replace file.py to folder.png to make this in codes you will want os library:

# import the os library so you can edit in paths:
import os
# to get this path folder
THIS_FOLDER = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
# to get the folder.png as string will join this folder and folder.png
folder_path = os.path.join(THIS_FOLDER, 'folder.png')
# now set the image path to folder_path:
foldersys = Button(window, border="1.5", image = folder_path, compound = LEFT)
# Done!

so like that way you will get this folder path os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) then join it with folder.png that mean this:(example): c:\proj\folder.png

Hope this will helpful

@twin rapids

[open lintel]

whats wrong wit this

import tkinter as tk

HEIGHT = 700
WIDTH = 800

root = tk.Tk()

canvas = tk.Canvas(root, height=HEIGHT, width=WIDTH)
canvas.pack()

frame = tk.Frame(root, bg='black')
frame.place(relx=0.1, rely=0.1, relwidth=0.8, relheight=0.8



button = tk.Button(root, text="test Button", bg='grey', fg='red')
button.pack()

root.mainloop()

[digital rose]

I dont think this will have error

any error ?

@open lintel

[swift halo]

You're missing a closing ) on line 12.

[digital rose]

oh yes I didnt see it 👍🏼

[open lintel]

where

[swift halo]

frame.place(relx=0.1, rely=0.1, relwidth=0.8, relheight=0.8

You forgot an ) at the end

[twin rapids]

anyone know how to add a clock to the bottom right of the screen like a normal computer

[eager beacon]

It could be the spacing is still set to the default 12px or that the icon's label is expanded causing it to fill the bar.

Try setting a background color on the label to see whats going on

[unique forge]

use a Label

and every second you could update the label

[twin rapids]

but how do i do it thats the question

[unique forge]

are you trying to create your own OS inside an app?

[twin rapids]

yea

[unique forge]

Tkinter or PyQt?

[twin rapids]

Tkinter

[unique forge]

hmm idk tkinter

I would recommend you use PyQt5

it has a theme that looks like the 90s

[twin rapids]

oo nice

ok ill learn it

thnaks for advice

[unique forge]

also @twin rapids if you use Qt Designer

you can drag and drop widgets to make your UI

[twin rapids]

i see

but i want to code...

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()
bar = Canvas(window, height=800, width=800)
button = Button(window, border="1.5", text = "Menu")
foldersys = Button(window, text = "Files", border="1.5")
clock = Label(window, text = "Old")

def update():
    clock.config(text = "New")

bar.create_rectangle(0, 350, 800, 400, outline = "#C0C0C0", fill="#C0C0C0")
window.geometry("800x400")
bar.pack(side=TOP) 
button.place(x = 10, y = 358)
foldersys.place(x = 85, y = 358)
clock.place(x = 0, y = 0)
clock.pack()

clock.after(1000, update)

window.resizable(width = False, height = False)
window.mainloop()

why wont the clock test, text appaer?

[twin rapids]

nvm i got it up and running

!!!

[modern marsh]

Ohh

I will check,thanks :)

[twin rapids]

your making a music player?

[ivory ember]

mb, was popping off at a track meet

so you want no padding?

[modern marsh]

Yeah

[modern marsh]

Yeah

[ivory ember]

@modern marsh whats the container widget and button widget (a subclass?)

[modern marsh]

the icons are placed in QPushButtons and are placed in a QFrame with a QHBoxLayout set in it

@eager beacon i added background colour to the button and it looks like this

so, the icon fits perfectly

but i want padding between button and borders to reduce

o, i did not try to increase the button size lolol

i should try that

[eager beacon]

@modern marsh Why did it turn the Icon red?

Are you sure you set the background color on the label that contains the pixmap?

Ohh, I just saw you said they were push buttons

[modern marsh]

yeah i set a stylesheet

so

i increased the button size

and now the padding problem is gone but icon wont scale

play_pause_button.setIcon(qtg.QPixmap(qtg.QImage(ico.PLAY_ICON)).scaled(100, 100, qtc.Qt.KeepAspectRatio))```

how do i set a SizePolicy or something on this

[eager beacon]

I thought you wanted the buttons the size they were previously and the black box to be shorter with the icons closer together.

What is your goal?

[modern marsh]

oh nono

i just want the icons to be as big as possible

in this case, touching the edges of the button (play button)

[eager beacon]

then you need to use button.setIconSize(QSize(75,75))

The IconSize for the buttons are controlled by the app style you have set or if you haven't set one then its done through the default OS theme.

so you need to manually specify the size to change their size

[modern marsh]

oh

alright, thanks :D

yee it works

[eager beacon]

nice

If you used a label you could have just clicked the setScaledContents(True) and let the OS worry about how many pixels the icon has

PushButtons are typically more trouble than they are worth when you use stylesheets on them

[modern marsh]

oh alright, will keep in mind

thanks

[plucky gyro]

i'm just messing with turtle

how do i change the size of a stamp of a turtle

[digital rose]

@twin rapids

from tkinter import *
from datetime import datetime as dt

class MainWindow:
    def __init__(self):
        self.master = Tk()
        
        self.renderClock()
        self.updateClock()

        self.master.mainloop()
    def renderClock(self):
        self.clockLabel=Label(self.master, text="", font = ("Consolas", 15, 'normal'))
        self.clockLabel.pack(side=BOTTOM, fill= X, expand=True)

    def updateClock(self):
        now = dt.now()
        t = now. strftime("%H : %M : %S")
        self.clockLabel.config(text=t)
        self.master.after(999, self.updateClock)
        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    root=MainWindow()

Nothing hackish going on here, just used the datetime module to use now() to get current time.
In renderClock() we just create a Label object, that will render the time on the screen.
A tip here, when rendering objects using .pack(), you can say .pack(side=BOTTOM) to render the widget at the bottom of the screen.

And .after() is a magical tool, we just keep on updating the time after every 999 miliseconds, (didnt say 1000ms or 1 second, to give the leverage of 1 ms for the compiler, for any delays.)
and after updating the time, we update the label text, thats it.

[digital rose]

@twin rapids

[vale hornet]

What do you use for Gui's in Python http://www.strawpoll.me/42984402

[unique forge]

I use PyQt5 and Kivy

[modern marsh]

how do i scale my Qt app

i have set a minimum size to it

but when resizing it, the frames dont get resized accordingly

[modern marsh]

oh nvm that, how do i use anchors in PyQt5

[wraith rivet]

does anyone know a good documentation of tkinter because right now im using https://tcl.tk and its good but it isnt listing all of the attributes for 8.6 like title, config, attributes, etc.

[digital rose]

that is literally the best docs for tkinter. what you actually want is comprehensive examples for attribute usage, which is not something for documentations.

[wraith rivet]

ik they're the best docs but they arent listing all of the attributes for each object so i gotta search for a yt video each time i want to see if i can do something

its mainly for tk.Tk() but yea

[digital rose]

https://anzeljg.github.io/rin2/book2/2405/docs/tkinter/index.html could be a better alternative, it lists attributes by index.

[wraith rivet]

alright ill try it

import tkinter as tk
import pylint as lint
master = tk.Tk()
master.title("blah blh blah")
master.geometry("800x700")
menu_bar = tk.Menu(master)
fileBtn = tk.Menubutton(menu_bar, text="File")

master.mainloop()

why isnt the menu showing up?

nvm im not doing .pack lol

nevermind still not working

can't pack !menu: it's a top level window

[digital rose]

@wraith rivet
master.config(menu = menu_bar)

[wraith rivet]

i tried that

ill try again

import tkinter as tk
master = tk.Tk()
master.title("dfcde- untitled")
master.geometry("800x700")
menu_bar = tk.Menu(master)
master.config(menu=menu_bar)
fileBtn = tk.Menubutton(menu_bar, text="File")
menu_bar.pack()
fileBtn.pack()
master.mainloop()

same error

[digital rose]

.pack() doesnt work with menu objects.

remove pack.

[wraith rivet]

mmm ok

nothing

import tkinter as tk
master = tk.Tk()
master.title("
rfgrfgv - untitled")
master.geometry("800x700")
menu_bar = tk.Menu(master)
master.config(menu=menu_bar)
bar = tk.Menu(menu_bar)
fileBtn = tk.Menubutton(bar, text="File")

master.mainloop()

nothingggg

[digital rose]

try this:

import tkinter as tk
import pylint as lint
master = tk.Tk()
master.title("blah blh blah")
master.geometry("800x700")
menu_bar = tk.Menu(master, bg="black")

filemenu = tk.Menu(menu_bar, )
menu_bar.add_cascade(label = "File", menu = filemenu)

master.config(menu = menu_bar)

master.mainloop()

@wraith rivet

[wraith rivet]

it works somehow lol

why do you need to make two menus?

[digital rose]

menu_bar is a master menu. it does not contain any cascades, like file, edit, etc.

so you need to add cascades to it.

[wraith rivet]

but filemenu is just another menu

[digital rose]

filemenu is a child menu.

[wraith rivet]

arent cascades just the dropdown buttons

and why do you need a child menu????

confusing\

[digital rose]

its used to render drop down cascades.

[wraith rivet]

mmm ok

[digital rose]

you cannot render cascades on a master menu.

[wraith rivet]

i think i might just use swing on jython lol

[digital rose]

child menus are like columns in excel. you need them, you cannot do everything on the status bar.

[wraith rivet]

mmm ok

and if i make the menu before the window i dont have to do .config right?

[digital rose]

You cannot create menu objects without creating a window instance.

[wraith rivet]

mm oj

ok

[digital rose]

And config to just update the menu used in the window.

[lucid fjord]

Tkinter question:
Why is this text not centered?

label = tk.Label(
            text="This is a test",
            foreground="white",
            background="black"
        )
        label.place(y=(height/2), x=(width/2))
``` it is slightly off to the right

[modern marsh]

@ivory ember if you don't mind, can you send a code snippet to explain how exactly QSettings works

The docs are confusing me

[ivory ember]

@modern marsh this

we can do a dm/vc if u need more help

[digital rose]

Hey, Im using Pyqt to create a GUI but I want my background image to be animated (gif). Does anyone know how I can do so? Here is my current code:

class Ui_MainWindow(object):
    def setupUi(self, MainWindow):
        if not MainWindow.objectName():
            MainWindow.setObjectName(u"MainWindow")
        MainWindow.resize(802, 604)
        MainWindow.setStyleSheet(u"background-image: url(:/newPrefix/stars.gif);")```

[digital rose]

because the label text have a lot of chars and the center of a widget is in the right so to fix this do in place func x=(width/2)+14)

[digital rose]

sorry I'm not good at PyQt5

[unique forge]

whats the point in replying?

[digital rose]

what

oh your that boy who know pyqt5

[ivory ember]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41709464/python-pyqt-add-background-gif

[red sequoia]

how do I make this frame the same size as the window?

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
sub = tk.Tk()
sub.geometry('500x500')
sub.title("red")
sub.configure(bg="red")   


my_notebook = ttk.Notebook(sub)
my_notebook.pack(pady=12)

justframe = Frame(my_notebook, width=500, height=500)
justframe.pack(fill="both", expand=1)
framez = Frame(my_notebook, width=500, height=500)
framez.pack(fill="both", expand=1)
my_notebook.add(justframe, text="tab 1")
my_notebook.add(framez, text="tab 2")



mainloop()```

[digital rose]

thanks

[ivory ember]

np

[modern marsh]

thanks :D

[modern marsh]

hey

so, i have the same problem rn

i am using a TOML file instead of QSettings temporarily

[ivory ember]

i just decided rebooting the app would be fine

[modern marsh]

no

[ivory ember]

to change the fonts

[modern marsh]

there is a solution

https://wiki.qt.io/Dynamic_Properties_and_Stylesheets

but its tough to implement

[ivory ember]

okay...and?

[modern marsh]

does this not solve your problem?

[ivory ember]

i just decided I was fine with rebooting the app

cause I didn't use stylesheets to set it anyways

thx tho

[modern marsh]

ah ok

i was a bit too late in sending this

[ivory ember]

yeah lol

[leaden tiger]

hello, may i ask a question ... i create a card game ... starts with a window and menu and after a click i create a child window with an input box. everything works well, except that my code after the inputbox will be executed after i close the whole programme ... does somebody know why?

ok i found the solution

i need to destroy and quit the window afterwards

[digital rose]

@red sequoia :

# see this example:
frameWidth = sub.winfo_width()
frameHeight = sub.winfo_height()

justframe = Frame(my_notebook, width = frameWidth, height=frameHeight)
justframe.pack( .. .. ) # do not change anything here.

# do not change the rest of the code.

[digital rose]

Hey guys I have a problem when I am trying to use an icon I get the following error:
_tkinter.TclError: bitmap "icon.ico" not defined

whats the code youre using to render the icon?

@digital rose

root.iconbitmap("icon.ico")

@digital rose :

root.iconbitmap(r'/full/path/to/icon.ico')

remember to add r for raw string.

same 😦

[digital rose]

@digital rose

yes?

@digital rose

Same error

show some code.

@digital rose

root.iconbitmap(r"./icon\.ico")

@digital rose

use single quotes instead '

same

its not working

[digital rose]

instead of that, try:

root.call('wm','iconphoto',root._w,PhotoImage(file='/path/to/icon.ico'))

@digital rose

it doesnt matter if you say:
root.tk.call() or root.call() both are just aliases of the same .call()command.

its much better than .iconbitmap() which is quite hard to use.

[digital rose]

just using the window manager to render an icon.

[modern marsh]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/wiboyaloma.rb

the frames in the window do not resize with the window

i have set layouts to all frames

and have not set fixed size policies anywhere

does anyone know why the frames wont scale?

[Qt]

[modern marsh]

@ivory ember do you know why this is happening

[ivory ember]

no idea ☹

[modern marsh]

oh alright np

[shell kindle]

hello

from tkinter import*
import time
import random
import discord 
from discord.ext import commands
from tkinter import ttk
from threading import *
  
root = Tk()
  

root.geometry("400x400")

  
def threading():
    t1=Thread(target=work)
    t1.start()


def work():
    client = commands.Bot(command_prefix = "!")
    client.run('TOKEN')


Button(root,text="Click Me",command = threading).pack()
  
root.mainloop()

help ?

[pliant dagger]

Anyone wanting a stylish tkinter theme must check this out!
https://github.com/rdbende/Azure-ttk-theme

[unique forge]

whats wrong?

[shell kindle]

ohh

[unique forge]

what?

[unique forge]

nice that looks really modern

[shell kindle]

My panel freezes when I launch the discord bot over the button

[unique forge]

first of all, replace client with bot

[shell kindle]

I want my panel not to freeze when the bot is online

[unique forge]

commands.Bot is supposed to be stored in bot

[shell kindle]

bot = commands.Bot ?

@unique forge

[unique forge]

yes

[shell kindle]

and ?

[unique forge]

idk now

the threading isnt working

from tkinter import*
import time
import random
import discord 
from discord.ext import commands
from tkinter import ttk
from threading import *
  
root = Tk()
  

root.geometry("400x400")

  
def threading():
    t1=Thread(target=work)
    t1.start()


def work():
    bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix = "!")
    bot.run('TOKEN')


Button(root,text="Click Me", command=threading).pack()
  
root.mainloop()

this is what it should look like

[shell kindle]

nope

[pliant dagger]

Yeah, it stunned me!

Hope it will help some people here

[shell kindle]

don't working

[unique forge]

@shell kindle I just said its not going to work

[shell kindle]

ok

can u fix it ?

plese

😟

@unique forge

[unique forge]

no I cant

idk how

[shell kindle]

ohh

okay thank you

[digital rose]

@eager beacon

can u help me out with PyQt? im a complete beginner with some python basic knowledge

famous8 told me to ask u for help 👍

[modern marsh]

amazing theme :D

[modern marsh]

check this out for Qt :P

https://pypi.org/project/qt-material/

[red sequoia]

how do I get what was typed inside entry inserted inside the listbox?

with tkinter

[mint dew]

Good evening, I am French, sooo I apologize in advance for my bad English. (same for my way of writing in python)
I'm using Tkinter and trying to create a loop so i don't have to rewrite every button myself (button "a", button "b", button "c"....). Everything works except for functions created for "command".

#simplified context needed to understand
listeAlphabet=list("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")
def game(x):
    print(x)

#[...]
for bouton in listeAlphabet:    #"bouton" = "button"
    buttonLettre=bouton    
    if colonne>12:     
        ligne=1     #"ligne" = "row"
        colonne=0    #"colonne" = "column"
    buttonLettre=Button(alphabetFrame,text=bouton,command=lambda: game(bouton))
    buttonLettre.grid(column=colonne,row=ligne)
    colonne+=1

When I run and click on one of the buttons, the terminal necessarily displays: z (the last letter of the list). How do I make sure that when I press the "a" button, it displays a?

[cursive swift]

AWESOME

but how am i supposed to use this?

[digital rose]

@mint dew of what i see, you are creating buttons inside the loop?

[mint dew]

exactly

[ripe jetty]

I'm gonna go to sleep now, but leaving this here overnight:
How could I go about making a web dashboard so my bot can be controlled from there?
Please ping me if you can help, hope this doesn't break any rules lol

[digital rose]

@mint dew it was quite a weird problem, but do this:

# at the start of the for loop
cmd = lambda i = bouton : game(i)

And now when you create the button:

# in the for loop
buttonLettre(.. .. .. , command=cmd)
.... .. .. .. 
#, do not change the rest of the code.

[digital rose]

@ripe jetty probably a question for #web-development

[mint dew]

Oh thanks, it's working well now 😄

[pliant dagger]

Clearly mentioned in the README.md file

[eager beacon]

@digital rose Did you have a specific question about PyQt?

[digital rose]

No worries.

[modern marsh]

:(

[neon steppe]

how can I change titlebar color

[eager beacon]

Its really not worth the time and effort @neon steppe

[neon steppe]

🤔 but I want to do this

[eager beacon]

Do you also want to reimplement the ability to move the window around the screen and be able to minimize/maximize the window?

[eager beacon]

@neon steppe you just need to add the line below to the init method of whichever window you want to be frameless but after you will need to create a widget for the top of the window to hold the window control buttons that you'll need to set up to close/minimize/maximize the window. you'll also need to write the code in mousemove/mousepress/mouserelease to be able to drag the window around the screen.
self.setWindowFlags(Qt.CustomizeWindowHint | Qt.FramelessWindowHint)

that flag should work for any OS, but if it doesn't work for you, you can remove Qt.CustomizeWindowHint | from the flags method.

Even if you do all of that, the window won't be able to snap into place and resize correctly on Windows when you try dragging it to the to the edge of the screen

[lethal widget]

Does anybody have a good example of how to do FFT in realtime audio using PyQt/PySide?

[modern marsh]

Ah I did the custom bars and set up events but the moving around of windows is very wonky

And the frames don't resize with the window :(

[ivory abyss]

Hello, I'm using Tkinter azure theme how do I setup a switch to change from azure dark mode to light mode ?

[ivory abyss]

tag me if you have the answer

[neon steppe]

I wanna do this through tkinter

[eager beacon]

@tropic otter I think you're out of luck then 😦

as far as I know thats not possible

[modern marsh]

root.tk.call('source', 'azure.tcl')

[ivory abyss]

def switch_mode():
if switch.get():
root.tk.call('source', 'azure.tcl')

something like this ?

[unique forge]

@digital rose

[modern marsh]

maybe

idk

[digital rose]

it is possible. @neon steppe theres not a built in way to do this, but you can do something like this:

from tkinter import *

root=Tk()
root.geometry("400x400+400+40")

ft = ("consolas",10,'normal')

def changeTitleBarConfig():
    root.overrideredirect(1) # disables default window manager config

    titleBarFrame = Frame(root, height=80, width=100)
    titleBarFrame.pack(side=TOP, anchor=NE, expand=False)
    
    exitButton = Button(titleBarFrame, text="x", fg="white", bg="red",padx=12, pady=4,bd=0,relief="sunken",
        font=ft,command=lambda:root.destroy())
    exitButton.pack(side=RIGHT)

changeTitleBarConfig()

root.mainloop()

it just creates a window with a close button, but of course you can go much farther with this.

quite simple, by overriding the window manager, to disable the default window borders, and then created a frame on top of the window to hold the exit button.

[arctic frigate]

hi, so i have a gui made with tkinter that opens a window that plays a pygame game

how do i make it so that when i close the pygame window without closing the tkinter window

im using pygame.quit and exit() to close the game

[eager beacon]

@digital rose Nice! Can you make it so you can drag the window with the mouse?

The exit button doesn't seem to work for me

[digital rose]

it works, for me at least.

[eager beacon]

weird, it just drops focus when I press the button

probably something to do with macos

[digital rose]

yeah, it is a kind of windows - oriented program, and so the button style.

[neon steppe]

@digital rose 🤔 its my laptop problem

[leaden tiger]

hello, may i ask a question ... is it possible if i create 2 buttons ... that i assign 1 button to another?

[neon steppe]

lol got it

[leaden tiger]

i mean is it possible to say button A = button B with images and commands? ... because if i create a new button ... the new button has a different number and thats a problem in my application

[abstract crown]

I'm trying to make the A* pathfinding algorithm with tkinter. does anyone know how i can search for neighbour canvases? each square is a class

https://gyazo.com/fa30df1a6fd350827ba6e55e9cd15dee

[digital rose]

@abstract crown its doesnt make sense to render individiual canvas as a single square. Instead, you can create a grid of lines, and use a function to get a neighboring cell:

# assuming that you have each cell's info as [row, column]
def neighbour(cell):
    return [cell[0]+1, cell[0]-1,cell[1]+1,cell[1]-1]

This should return the 4 neighbours of the cell.

By the way, i recently made a flood fill visualiser, making use of the same technique, the 4 direction approach to render neighbouring cells on the canvas.
( i do have a gif showing flood fill in action on my app.)

[abstract crown]

how should i make the cells?

def createGrids(self):
        for x in range(0, self.SW, 20):    
            for y in range(0, self.SH, 20):
                print(x,y)
                square = Node(self, self.boarderWidth, sqrt(self.gridArea), x, y)
                self.grids.append(square)``` this was my lazy method of making the grids

[digital rose]

Ah, yes, i see.

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()

c=Canvas(root)
c.pack(side=TOP, fill=BOTH, expand=True)

root.update()

gap=20

cw=c.winfo_width()
ch=c.winfo_height()

for i in range(0, cw, gap):
	c.create_line(i, 0, i, ch, fill="black")

for j in range(0, ch, 20):
	c.create_line(0, j, cw, j, fill="black")

root.mainloop()

@abstract crown

Renders a grid of cells 20 pixels wide.

[ivory abyss]

anyone with knowledge with tkinter check #☕help-coffee

Sorry for the annoyance

[abstract crown]

this created a nice looking grid but the canvases were unique and allowed me to interact with them directly.

[digital rose]

You can always interact with any object on the canvas using tags.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/731080928486752267/833591857652301884/FloodFillVisualiser.gif

See how my flood fill visualizer fills a section of the canvas using this grid technique.

Pretty fast, and optimised.

[modern marsh]

you should be a tkinter helper :D

[digital rose]

Thanks :D

[ivory abyss]

Would you mind to check my problem in #☕help-coffee

?

I have button that adds Entries , I want to store the input of the entries in a list

[digital rose]

To get the text written in an Entry widget

text = entry.get()
myList.append(text)

@ivory abyss

[abstract crown]

im sorry i must be really annoying but my mind is so confused. How do i interact with the grid? do i get the mouse pos then draw a color?

[digital rose]

See this @abstract crown :

def onclickDraw(event):
     cell=[event.x//gap, event.y//gap]
     canvas.create_rectangle(cell[0]*gap, cell[1]*gap, (cell[0]+1)*gap, (cell[1]+1)*gap, fill="cyan")

canvas.bind("<B1-Motion>", onclickDraw)

So that when you drag the mouse by pressing the left key, it draws rectangles over it.

[abstract crown]

oh wow

[digital rose]

Just replace gap by 20

[abstract crown]

i sortof understand how this works

[digital rose]

Very well.

[abstract crown]

thanks

[digital rose]

You can always try to run the snippet.

To see how it works.

[open lintel]

whats wrong with this ```py
import tkinter as tk

HEIGHT = 700
WIDTH = 800

root = tk.Tk()

canvas = tk.Canvas(root, height=HEIGHT, width=WIDTH)
canvas.pack()

frame = tk.Frame(root, bg='black')
frame.place(relx=0.1, rely=0.1, relwidth=0.8, relheight=0.8

button = tk.Button(root, text="test Button", bg='grey', fg='red')
button.pack()

root.mainloop()

this was my error

` File "C:\Users\levil\OneDrive\Desktop\WeatherApp.py", line 14
button = tk.Button(root, text="test Button", bg='grey', fg='red')
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Process finished with exit code 1`

help anyone?

[pliant dagger]

you missing a bracket buddy
frame.place(relx=0.1, rely=0.1, relwidth=0.8, relheight=0.8)

[river compass]

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Work Time")
root.geometry("600x400")

timer1 = tk.IntVar(root)
timer1_enabled = tk.IntVar(root)
name_var = tk.StringVar()

name_var_entry = tk.Entry(root, textvariable = name_var, font=('Ariel Rounded MT bold',10, 'bold'))
name_label = tk.Label(root, text = 'Total work time since start', font=('Ariel Rounded MT bold',10, 'bold'))
timer_entry = tk.Label(root,textvariable = timer1, font=('Ariel Rounded MT bold',10,'normal'))
start_btn=tk.Button(root,text = 'Start/Pause', command = timer1_enabled)
reset_btn=tk.Button(root,text = 'Reset', command = timer1_enabled)

name_var_entry.grid(row=1,sticky="W", column=1,pady=(110, 0), padx=(50, 0))
name_label.grid(row=2, sticky="W", column=1, pady=(10, 0), padx=(35, 0))
timer_entry.grid(row=3, sticky="W", column=1, pady=(5, 0), padx=(115, 0))
start_btn.grid(row=4, sticky="W", column=1, pady=(5, 0), padx=(45, 0))
reset_btn.grid(row=4, sticky="W", column=1, pady=(5, 0), padx=(145, 0))


def advance_timers():
    if timer1_enabled.get(): 
        timer1.set(timer1.get() + 1)
    root.after(1000, advance_timers)

root.after(0, advance_timers)
root.mainloop()``` how did i make my buttons command work again? also i am aware that the reset and start/pause button have the same command but if i manage to make 1 work i expect to understand how to make it possible to pause and also reset then

[slender prawn]

Can anyone explain this part to me in PyQt5?

vline.addLayout(hline2)
window.setLayout(vline)```

[digital rose]

@river compass sorry for the late reply, but there is practically no need for an IntVar instance. you can instead do this:

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Work Time")
root.geometry("600x400")

timer = 0
stop = False

name_var = tk.StringVar()

name_var_entry = tk.Entry(root, textvariable = name_var, font=('Ariel Rounded MT bold',10, 'bold'))
name_label = tk.Label(root, text = 'Total work time since start', font=('Ariel Rounded MT bold',10, 'bold'))
timer_entry = tk.Label(root,text = timer, font=('Ariel Rounded MT bold',10,'normal'))

def advance_timers():
    global timer, stop
    
    if stop == True:
        stop = False
        return

    if stop == False:
        timer += 1
        timer_entry.config(text = timer)
        root.after(999, advance_timers)

def pause():
    global stop
    stop = True
    #advance_timers()

def reset_timer():
    global timer, stop
    stop = True
    timer = 0
    timer_entry.config(text = timer)

start_btn=tk.Button(root,text = 'Start', command = advance_timers)
pause_btn=tk.Button(root,text = 'Pause', command = pause)
reset_btn=tk.Button(root,text = 'Reset', command = reset_timer)

name_var_entry.grid(row=1,sticky="W", column=1,pady=(110, 0), padx=(50, 0))
name_label.grid(row=2, sticky="W", column=1, pady=(10, 0), padx=(35, 0))
timer_entry.grid(row=3, sticky="W", column=1, pady=(5, 0), padx=(115, 0))
start_btn.grid(row=4, sticky="W", column=1, pady=(5, 0), padx=(45, 0))
pause_btn.grid(row=5, sticky="W", column=1, pady=(5, 0), padx=(45, 0))
reset_btn.grid(row=4, sticky="W", column=1, pady=(5, 0), padx=(145, 0))

root.mainloop()

[river compass]

ty for the reply even if its late :D this helps a ton (and its easier to understand for me which makes me learn more :D)

[digital rose]

no problem 😄

just to let you know, we called after() for 999 miliseconds, to cover up any delays.

[river compass]

ahhh

[digital rose]

feel free to ask anything you dont understand in the code.

[river compass]

i think i still understand this like i can read it and see why it works

i can't recreate it but do understand it which is half way there

it can break pretty easily tho but thats fine

[open lintel]

how do i make the white outline blue?

[mighty rock]

borderwidth=0, highlightthickness=0

[open lintel]

where do i write this

[mighty rock]

where you put stuff in the tk.Canvas( line

[open lintel]

ok yty

tysm

[barren thorn]

Could someone tell me if there is any option to use "-type" attribute in tkinter
https://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/wm.htm#M19
because when I do

root.attributes("-type", "splash")

it throws me an error about wrong arguments
NOTE: I'm using windows

[jade mist]

Hi, I write here but I don't know if this is the right channel. I'm working on a software that download images from the web and automatically save them. I'd like to download the images and show them before to save them, I've tried to use 'Image.open()' with PIL module but it doesn't work, I believe it only open files already existing. Sorry for my bad english.

[barren thorn]

@jade mist Since you havent posted any code my only guess is that you forgot to add show after. Image.open("some image").show()

[jade mist]

Yes, sure. I've used .show() also but the Image.open() doesn't open any image since I've not saved it. The image I want to show is the response content of a request i made to a website

I'll post my code if necessary

[barren thorn]

@jade mist do it, without it we gonna play unnecessary game of guessing

[jade mist]

import requests as req
from PIL import Image
url=input("website: ")# for example https://discord.com
res=req.get(url).content
img=Image.open(res)
img.show()```

[barren thorn]

@jade mist open takes path to an image file
so you need to save it first

[digital rose]

Yo anbody here knows how to put images as FOREGROUND in tkinter?

[jade mist]

Yeah, that's the problem I was talking about. I'd like to now if there's a way to show the downloaded image before to save it.

[jade mist]

I resolved!

[jade mist]

Using BytesIO:```py
from io import BytesIO
import requests
from PIL import Image
url=input('website: ')
r = requests.get(url)
img=BytesIO(r.content)
im = Image.open(img)
im.show()

[digital rose]

@barren thorn on windows, no such attribute exists. The docs say it is a linux attribute.

But i am assuming you want to disable window borders?

root.overrideredirect(1)

Is what you're looking for, then.

@barren thorn

[barren thorn]

@digital rose nope, it also kills the tray. Sadly I will need to do it other way.

[digital rose]

what do you mean kill the tray? overrideredirect() disables window borders.

@barren thorn

[barren thorn]

it also kills it on the tray

[digital rose]

if youre talking of removing status from the taskbar, it will do it.

you can always make it show in the taskbar!

from tkinter import *

mainWindow = Tk()
mainWindow.geometry("500x500+400+40")
mainWindow.overrideredirect(1)

status = Toplevel(mainWindow) # to make 'tk' show in taskbar.
status.wm_attributes('-alpha', 0.0) # hides the toplevel.

def killAll(event):
    status.destroy()
    mainWindow.destroy()
    
mainWindow.bind("<Escape>", killAll)

mainWindow.mainloop()
status.mainloop()

@barren thorn this approach seems to work just fine. you can see a reference to 'tk', otherwise a tkinter window in the taskbar.

[barren thorn]

yes, but this just seem like a hack, my guess is that I will use the windows api to do this

@digital rose

[neon steppe]

class LoginPage:
    def __init__(self, root):
        self.root = root
        self.root.geometry("1450x700+0+0")
        self.root.title("Login Page")

        self.title_label = Label(self.root, text="system", font=("Arial", 35, "bold"),
                                 bg="lightpink", bd=8, relief=GROOVE)
        self.title_label.pack(side=TOP, fill=X)

        self.main_frame = Frame(self.root, bg="aliceblue", bd=6, relief=GROOVE)
        self.main_frame.place(x=280, y=150, width=900, height=400)

        self.login_lbl = Label(self.main_frame, text="Login Page ", font=("Arial", 20, "bold"), bd=6, bg="aliceblue",anchor=CENTER)
        self.login_lbl.pack(side=TOP, fill=X)

        self.email = Label(self.main_frame, text="Email-id", font=("Arial", 20, "bold"))
        self.email.grid(row=0, column=0)

error:-

C:\Users\GoLu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe E:/document/python/project/test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\document\python\project\test.py", line 62, in <module>
    main()
  File "E:\document\python\project\test.py", line 36, in main
    app = LoginPage(root)
  File "E:\document\python\project\test.py", line 58, in __init__
    self.email.grid(row=0, column=0)
  File "C:\Users\GoLu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 2485, in grid_configure
    self.tk.call(
_tkinter.TclError: cannot use geometry manager grid inside .!frame which already has slaves managed by pack

how can I fix this?

[barren thorn]

@neon steppe you can use only grid or only pack

[digital rose]

very well. you are free to use it, just to let you know it isnt a hack.

[neon steppe]

I have used grid in last label

🤔 so can I use grid in both frame and label

[digital rose]

you need to show the code, so that i can help you out.

[neon steppe]

from tkinter import *


def main():
    root = Tk()
    app = LoginPage(root)
    root.mainloop()


class LoginPage:
    def __init__(self, root):
        self.root = root
        self.root.geometry("1450x700+0+0")
        self.root.title("Login Page")

        self.title_label = Label(self.root, text="Resturant managment System", font=("Arial", 35, "bold"),bg="lightpink", bd=8, relief=GROOVE)
        self.title_label.pack(side=TOP, fill=X)

        self.main_frame = Frame(self.root, bg="aliceblue", bd=6, relief=GROOVE)
        self.main_frame.place(x=280, y=150, width=900, height=400)

        self.login_lbl = Label(self.main_frame, text="Login Page ", font=("Arial", 20, "bold"), bd=6, bg="aliceblue",anchor=CENTER)
        self.login_lbl.pack(side=TOP, fill=X)

        self.email = Label(self.main_frame, text="Email-id", font=("Arial", 20, "bold"))
        self.email.grid(row=0, column=0)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

my whole code

@digital rose

[digital rose]

@neon steppe change:

self.email.grid(row=0, column=0)

to:

self.email.pack(side=TOP, anchor=NW)

[neon steppe]

thankx

😁

🤔 I have a question, Why I cannot use grid ?

[digital rose]

a frame is a container. tkinter expects you to have some uniformity when rendering widgets inside of a frame, so you can use either - .grid() or .pack().

but only one throughout.

[neon steppe]

ok ok

[open lintel]

whats wrong with this code

import tkinter as tk

HEIGHT = 700
WIDTH = 800

root = tk.Tk()

canvas = tk.Canvas(root, height=HEIGHT, width=WIDTH, bg='black', borderwidth=0, highlightthickness=0)
canvas.pack()

frame = tk.Frame(root, bg='white')
frame.place(relx=0.1, rely=0.1, relwidth=0.8, relheight=0.5)

button = tk.Button(frame, text="test Button", bg='#ff02e6', fg='cyan')
button.grid(relx=0, rely=0, relwidth=0.25, relheight=0.25)

label = tk.Label(frame, text='this is a label', bg='cyan', fg='#ff02e6')
label.grid(relx=0.3, rely=0, relwidth=0.45, relhight=0.25)

entry = tk.Entry(frame, bg='purple')
entry.grid(relx=0.8, rely=0, relwidth=0.2, relheight=0.25)

root.mainloop()

[open lintel]

?

[runic cairn]

What's the error?

[digital rose]

@open lintel change all .grid() to .place(), but dont change the options inside. Also you've spelt height wrong in label.grid().
relx, rely, relwidth and relheight are args for .place().

[split meadow]

Guys what GUI would you recommend to making a pretty user interface? I read that Tkinter is good but I saw the examples of people doing interfaces and they aren't really great.. also I saw some examples of PyQT5 and I saw that the examples are better, more modern, is that something to do with the GUI itself or you can achieve same results by using any of them?

[digital rose]

Depends on what your experience with GUIs is. If you're a complete newbie, Tkinter is the best choice. PyQT is good, with nice stylesheets, but its possible to replicate almost all pretty UI layouts in tkinter, because its quite flexible. Still, it all depends on your experience with,writing GUIs. Im not going to lie to you. Writing UIs sometimes needs custom stuff, like custom button layouts, etc, and in those cases native Libraries will not suffice.

@split meadow

[split meadow]

Loved this answer!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to it !! I appreciate it a lot !!

🍪 Here's a cookie for you

@digital rose

[digital rose]

Thank you so much :D

[tawdry mulch]

Something to keep in mind is - You can mix grid and place and also place and pack

[digital rose]

And in any case, how is it sensible to keep on interchanging geometry methods?

[tawdry mulch]

I have seen people use. Just mentioning that it wont throw an error at you

[digital rose]

Very well. A thing to keep in mind is to not go with what others do, but what is sensible code practice.

[tawdry mulch]

Fair enough

[tawdry mulch]

foreground of what?

[tawdry mulch]

Any idea why pack() and place() does not show one of them, inside a frame?

[digital rose]

What do you mean?

[tawdry mulch]

You did mention something about rendering.

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()

f = Frame(root,bg='red')
f.pack()

Label(f,text='PYSCH~').pack()
Label(f,text='adasd').place(x=20,y=100)

root.mainloop()

You can see the 2nd label not appearing

@digital rose

[digital rose]

You're just rendering the 2nd label beyond the dimensions of the frame, which fits the size of the first label. Try:

# for the second label
Label(f,text="adasd").place(x=0,y=20)
``` see how the second label appears. @tawdry mulch

At the same time it's strange to see a thing like that happen, when the first widget rendered into the frame, the frame fits to its size.

[tawdry mulch]

No luck in that

[digital rose]

I see overlapped labels.

[tawdry mulch]

Hmmm pixels vary.

[digital rose]

You didnt say anything about proper rendering

[tawdry mulch]

x=0,y=10 does that for me

[digital rose]

Fair enough. Thanks for taking a dig.

Good day.

[tawdry mulch]

Well if anyone in future would want to know, you can use f.pack_propagte(0) to make it force listen to the required dimensions. Like height=100,width=100.

A code that works would be something similar to:

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()

f = Frame(root,height=100,width=100)
f.pack()
f.pack_propagate(0)
Label(f,text='PYSCH~').pack()
Label(f,text='adasd').place(x=0,y=20)

root.mainloop()

[digital rose]

Window

(I want to put put images over widgets)

[tawdry mulch]

Buttons, Labels and all has image option to it. But an entire window does not

Button(root,image=img)

[digital rose]

Wont that make the button have the image as like the texture?

[tawdry mulch]

You want text on top of it?

Use compound option for that

[digital rose]

Okay I just found out that tkinter doesnt support transparent images

so nevermind

[tawdry mulch]

Hmmhmm

It does

Canvas.create_image() supports RGBA images.

[digital rose]

Oh ;-; but you cant put entry widgets on a canvas

All I want is a custom theme using images

Thats why im asking for help on how to import images with transparent background

[tawdry mulch]

Canvas.create_window(x1,y1,window=entry)

[tawdry mulch]

How exactly? Do you have any example that I could see?

[digital rose]

Im testing it lol

wait

[digital rose]

Okay so i tried and it only shows the widget ;-;

and my image still doest overlap the entry box

[tawdry mulch]

Should'nt you also be saying canvas = Canvas(...) first.

I just gave an example using Canvas.create_image(). You should use a variable name, not the class itself.

[languid patio]

hey guys! i recently learned OOP and i am learning more of Python. I wanted to ask that which standard libraries should i learn to create a GUI like KivyMD since i plan to make a GUI from scratch

[rigid niche]

hey guys, I am making a tkinter matrix multiplication code which takes 2 matrices as input through GUI. I made the first window which looks like this:

here's the code for the window:

matrix1 = Tk()
matrix1.title("matrix 1")
matrix1.resizable(False, False)
for i in range(total_rows1):
    for j in range(total_columns1):
        globals()["e1"+str(i+1)+str(j+1)] = Entry(matrix1, width=5, fg='blue', font=('Arial',16,'bold'))
        globals()["e1"+str(i+1)+str(j+1)].grid(row=i, column=j)
    Button(text="Enter", padx=10, pady=5, command = AskForMatrix2).grid(row = 2, column = total_columns1+2)
matrix1.mainloop()

all I am doing is I am arranging the entries in a grid as per the rows and columns previously input by the user

I am also getting the "Enter" button which works fine

but

after pressing 'enter', the code is supposed to ask for the second matrix, which works for me, all I did was make a Toplevel() window when the button is pressed

here is the second window

here's the code for the second window

matrix2 = Toplevel()
    matrix2.title("matrix 2")
    matrix2.resizable(False, False)
    for i in range(total_rows2):
        for j in range(total_columns2):
            globals()["e2"+str(i+1)+str(j+1)] = Entry(matrix2, width=5, fg='blue', font=('Arial',16,'bold'))
            globals()["e2"+str(i+1)+str(j+1)].grid(row=i, column=j)
    Button(text="Enter", padx=10, pady=5, command = EnterMatrix2).grid(row = 2, column = total_columns2+2)

as you can see, its almost similar to the matrix1 window, but the problem is that the 'enter' button is not appearing for the second window
I tried searching on google, but did not get a good answer...

[proven basin]

Hey @rigid niche!

It looks like you tried to attach a Python file - please use a code-pasting service such as https://paste.pythondiscord.com

[rigid niche]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/kivujagehe.apache

here is the full code for reference ^^^

Thanks in advance!

[digital rose]

hey uuuh how do I use canvas on a 2nd window in tkinter, It gives an error "Canvas is not callable"

[tawdry mulch]

That is not the best way to use globals()

[rigid niche]

oww

[tawdry mulch]

Can you give a runnable code

[rigid niche]

its there in the link

[tawdry mulch]

Try: Button(matrix2,text="Enter", padx=10, pady=5, command = EnterMatrix2).grid(row = 2, column = total_columns2+2)

[rigid niche]

hmmm let me try

but what did you change in the line? @tawdry mulch

[tawdry mulch]

Added matrix2 at the first @rigid niche

[rigid niche]

ohh ok i will try it

ohh it worked!!

thank you soo much @tawdry mulch

🥳😃

[tawdry mulch]

Why not KivyMD itself?

[tawdry mulch]

Can you show us the code

[digital rose]

Nop I used label instead

but now

it doesnt show up

Even though I used label

def Show_Calculator():
    global Fresh_Calculator
    screen2 = Toplevel()
    screen2.title("Calculator")
    screen2.iconbitmap("Hands On Activity 3.1/Maksci Icon.ico")
    screen2.geometry("400x600")
    screen2.resizable(0,0)

    Fresh_Calculator = Image.open("Hands On Activity 3.2/Assets/Calculator Set Up.PNG")
    Transform_Calculator = Fresh_Calculator.resize((10,600), Image.ANTIALIAS)
    Calculator = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Transform_Calculator)

    Label_Calculator = Label(screen2, image=Calculator)
    Label_Calculator.place(x=0,y=0)

    Number_1 = Button(screen2, text="1", fg = 'white', bg = 'green', activebackground = '#1BC621')
    Number_1.place(x=10, y=567, width=50, height=50)

As you can see

its just like a normal window

[tawdry mulch]

say root.image = calculator

[digital rose]

but I used Toplevel()

can someone help with django

[tawdry mulch]

This is the channel for user-interfaces only.

[digital rose]

ok

[digital rose]

???

also I used screen instead of root

[tawdry mulch]

Okay then say screen.image = calculator before the function ends

[digital rose]

Oh wow that actually works

why do i need to type that though?

what does it do???

[tawdry mulch]

When a function ends, every variable that are not reused outside of the function is removed by the garbage collector of Python. But you need this image to be shown, so you have to keep a reference to the image. One way is saying global calculator or screen.whatevernameyouwant = calculator

[digital rose]

Oh so it, like loops

Okay at least that fixed it TYsm

[languid patio]

i can use it but i would love to make a GUI library from scratch

[tawdry mulch]

You want to make a GUI or a library that makes GUI?

[languid patio]

a library that makes GUI

[tawdry mulch]

Well it wont be easy. You have to understand how the windows are managed by each OS. And the concepts of event loops. In windows its win32 event message loop (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/window-messages)

There are libraries to make the jobs easier, why make one(now). Especially people use python just to get hands on these libraries.

[languid patio]

okay, will keep this in mind

[digital rose]

yo how do i italiciz my text in a button?

[tawdry mulch]

Does using italian text directly not work?

[crystal canopy]

Italicize like this

[crystal canopy]

What framework are you using?

[tawdry mulch]

tkinter

Show the code, just change the font option to italics.

Button(root,text='Hello World',font=(0,0,'italic') should work

[brittle bolt]

I am making a basic app using Tkniter but i am stuck with the following, I'm looking update my canvas each time a button is clicked as the image will change (The image within the file changes, just doesnt update with tkniter). Any help would be great Just @ me

[stuck anvil]

Im trying to make use of a hand tracking software that allows me to make bounding boxes that allow for squares and rectangles to be used, for example a fist would be a square and an open hand would be a rectangle. I'm using Mediapipe currently as they have bounding boxes that can be used as it uses CV2, however they don't change shape dependent on hand position. I've been able to draw rectangles or squares onto the image just using code like this :
[14:38]
for rect in results.hand_rects:
pt1 = (int(rect.x_center * size[1] - ((rect.width * size[1]) / 3)), int(rect.y_center * size[0] - ((rect.height * size[0]) / 3)))
pt2 = (int(rect.x_center * size[1] + ((rect.width * size[1]) / 3)), int(rect.y_center * size[0] + ((rect.height * size[0]) / 3)))
[14:39]
but it only allows for one shape to be made, has anyone got any suggestions or anything?

[digital rose]

nop its good dont worry i needed a tuple lol

[tawdry mulch]

Sure, post your code we will take a look here

[tawdry mulch]

Is this GUI based question? I really dont think so, why dont you ask this in one of the help channels

[stuck anvil]

Where else should I put it? I've tried the help channels a few times however my question doesn't get answered

[tawdry mulch]

Hmmmm it means the people dont actually get it, if this is a mistake or an error. You could ask this @ stackoverflow

[stuck anvil]

Okay cool thankyou I'll put it on there

[brittle bolt]

Sweet, This is my code for the canvas & image

url = "http:" + dict["icon"] # This image is dependent on what the API call provides
r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
open('WeatherImage.png', 'wb').write(r.content) # Will overwrite the current image with a new one when the button is clicked

image_holder = Canvas(root, bg='Grey', width=80, height=80)
image_holder.place(x=15, y=15)
myimg = PhotoImage(file='WeatherImage.png')  
image_holder.create_image(40,40, image=myimg)

[tawdry mulch]

Just to make sure, the image is all fine right? When you open it separate @brittle bolt

[brittle bolt]

So the issue i'm having, is when i click the button it will display myimg but lets say myimg = a square, the app will display the sqaure, but when i click the button the API might change it to a circle. So what happens is myimg = circle but Tkniter hasnt refreshed myimg so it still producing a square - If that makes sense & thats what your asking 😄

[tawdry mulch]

How do you know the API has changed the image? are there any intervals?

[brittle bolt]

so when the button is clicked it will produce a URL which is used to display an image based of the weather (its a weather app im making)

so the intervals are based on when the user clicks the button

[tawdry mulch]

So url = "http:" + dict["icon"] would change right? @brittle bolt

[brittle bolt]

yea

[tawdry mulch]

Okay cool, fairly easy.

Create a function and link it to a button

inside the function do the same exact thing

[brittle bolt]

Okay

[tawdry mulch]

But first you need to be able to "update" the image right

So change image_holder.create_image(40,40, image=myimg) to image_holder.create_image(40,40, image=myimg,tag='image')

First create a function and then I'll guide you from there.

Or if you want me to code, just lemme know @brittle bolt

[brittle bolt]

Either or, i'm happy to follow along

I just need 2 mins to do something irl then ill be back

[tawdry mulch]

Okay cool, try coding on your own, ill help with any mistakes

[brittle bolt]

Ok, so the canvas goes blank

with the button

So, how do i update the image to tkniter?

[solar cloak]

Maybe with .pack()?

Iirc you can use that to update newly added elements

[brittle bolt]

Eh, no clue tbh :D, i'll give it a look

[tawdry mulch]

Noo dont create new canvas

Send the code as text pls

@brittle bolt

[brittle bolt]

Okay

[tawdry mulch]

wym?

[brittle bolt]

def ClearScreen():
        output1.config(text="")
        output2.config(text="")
        output3.config(text="")
        output4.config(text="")

        url = "http:" + dict["icon"] 
        r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
        open('WeatherImage.png', 'wb').write(r.content)

        image_holder = Canvas(root, bg='Grey', width=80, height=80)
        image_holder.place(x=15, y=15)
        myimg = PhotoImage(file='WeatherImage.png')  
        image_holder.create_image(40,40, image=myimg, tag="image")

[brittle bolt]

you were referring to image above right?

[tawdry mulch]

Nope, the code

What is output1 to 4

[brittle bolt]

oh thats just a bunch of labels, that when the button is clicked replaces any text to a empty string. as i didnt know how to refresh it 😄

[tawdry mulch]

def ClearScreen():
    output1.config(text="")
    output2.config(text="")
    output3.config(text="")
    output4.config(text="")

    url = "http:" + dict["icon"] 
    r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
    open('WeatherImage.png', 'wb').write(r.content)

    myimg = PhotoImage(file='WeatherImage.png')  
    image_holder.itemconfig("image",image=myimg)

Try this

[brittle bolt]

It didnt work : (

[tawdry mulch]

Explain? What happened

[brittle bolt]

I can upload the full code, i'll just need to do it via codepen or somthing

[brittle bolt]

Image stayed the same

Nothing happened to the canvas

[tawdry mulch]

Did you associate the command to a button? 😉

[brittle bolt]

yea

wait, what u mean 'associate ' 😄

[tawdry mulch]

I mean command=ClearScreen for button

[brittle bolt]

yea i did hah

[tawdry mulch]

Post the entire code, let me see

[brittle bolt]

Ok, 1 seco

[tawdry mulch]

No errors even?

[brittle bolt]

No errors : (

is codepen fine?

[tawdry mulch]

I am not sure, there is service here

try pasting entire code here, i think they vl give a link to their paste service

[proven basin]

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[brittle bolt]

Had to use that, File was to big, Bot thought was spam

[tawdry mulch]

I forgot something though, try to say global myimg.

[brittle bolt]

Okay

Tried it, Didnt do anything for me

[tawdry mulch]

Bro you did not give tag at line 151

image_holder.create_image(40,40, image=myimg, tag='image')

[brittle bolt]

It doesn't work still - i did try but forgot to add it back : (

[tawdry mulch]

Can you update the code

[brittle bolt]

yea

Wait

Think it is (may of put global in wrong spot by mistake)

okay it is working ty

[tawdry mulch]

inside ClearScreen

[brittle bolt]

But slight issue on my end, is it possible to have it do this when the main button is clicked?

[tawdry mulch]

Which is main button

[brittle bolt]

I got it, thank you very much

I just moved it to a new function within the main function 😄 it works

[tawdry mulch]

Okay sure 😄

[brittle bolt]

Man, i have been stuck on this for like a solid a week and when i googled it the examples were confusing & so far off each any other examples that i couldnt tell what to follow

[tawdry mulch]

Its always something simple 😉

[brittle bolt]

haha, Thank you again man

[tawdry mulch]

Anytime 😄

[open lintel]

this better?

HEIGHT = 700
WIDTH = 800

root = tk.Tk()

canvas = tk.Canvas(root, height=HEIGHT, width=WIDTH, bg='black', borderwidth=0, highlightthickness=0)
canvas.pack()

frame = tk.Frame(root, bg='white')
frame.place(relx=0.1, rely=0.1, relwidth=0.8, relheight=0.5)

button = tk.Button(frame, text="test Button", bg='#ff02e6', fg='cyan')
button.place(relx=0, rely=0, relwidth=0.25, relheight=0.25)

label = tk.Label(frame, text='this is a label', bg='cyan', fg='#ff02e6')
label.place(relx=0.3, rely=0, relwidth=0.45, relheight=0.25)

entry = tk.Entry(frame, bg='purple')
entry.place(relx=0.8, rely=0, relwidth=0.2, relheight=0.25)

root.mainloop()

is this better anyone>

[digital rose]

Yes.

[fallow pivot]

Hello, does someone know how to use Pyinstaller when you have a Python script that calls subscripts and files?. I launched it the regular way, but the .EXE does nothing when i click on. It works only through the Terminal and only if allocated in the same folder of the subscripts. I suspect i have to modify something in the .spec?

[open lintel]

whats wrong with this code

import tkinter as tk

HEIGHT = 700
WIDTH = 800

def test_function():
    print("Button Clicked!")

root = tk.Tk()

canvas = tk.Canvas(root, height=HEIGHT, width=WIDTH, borderwidth=0, highlightthickness=0)
canvas.pack()

background_image = tk.PhotoImage(file='download.png')
background_label = tk.Label(root, image=background_image)
background.label.place(relwidth=1, relheight=1)

frame = tk.Frame(root, bg='#80c1ff', bd=5)
frame.place(relx=0.5, rely=0.1, relwidth=0.75, relheight=0.1, anchor='n')

entry = tk.Entry(frame, font=40)
entry.place(relwidth=0.65, relheight=1)

button = tk.Button(frame, text="Get weather!", bg='gray', command=test_function)
button.place(relx=0.7, relheight=1, relwidth=0.3)

lower_frame = tk.Frame(root, bg="#80c1ff", bd=10)
lower_frame.place(relx=0.5, rely=0.25, relwidth=0.75, relheight=0.6, anchor='n')

label = tk.Label(lower_frame)
label.place(relwidth=1, relheight=1)

root.mainloop()

[brittle bolt]

You might want to say the issue your having to help someone narrow it down

[tawdry mulch]

Which libraries do you use.

[tawdry mulch]

Nothing is wrong here

[peak rampart]

Hi is someone here experienced with making ui using pyqt5? i need help on that and will prolly require help later too so anyone willing to help?

[buoyant fulcrum]

My Help channel got marked as dormant for the second time 😦 Could someone just quickly help me here? It's a quick issue

How do I make def leave close the root window?
I think I need to pass the variables through but I forgot how

class Application(tk.Tk): 
        
    def topbar(self):    
        def leave():
            try:
                self.destroy()
                
            except:
                pass
        
        def softwareversion():
            def close():
                root.destroy()
            root = Tk()
            root.title("Software Version")
            label2 = ttk.Label(root, text="You are running xyz version 1.8.9 BETA", font=Information_Font,) #background="red")
            label2.pack(pady=0,padx=50)
            no = tk.Button(root, text = "Close", width = "8", command = close)
            no.pack(pady=4,padx=50)    
            
        self.menuBar = Menu(master=self)
        self.filemenu = Menu(self.menuBar, tearoff=0)
        self.infomenu = Menu(self.menuBar, tearoff=0)
        self.helpmenu = Menu(self.menuBar, tearoff=0)
        self.viewmenu = Menu(self.menuBar, tearoff=0)
        self.filemenu.add_command(label="Hello!")
        self.filemenu.add_command(label="Exit!", command=leave )
        self.infomenu.add_command(label="Software Version", command=softwareversion)
        self.infomenu.add_command(label="Switch CLI Version")
        self.helpmenu.add_command(label="About")
        self.menuBar.add_cascade(label="File", menu=self.filemenu)
        self.menuBar.add_cascade(label="Help", menu=self.helpmenu)
        self.menuBar.add_cascade(label="Info", menu=self.infomenu)
        self.menuBar.add_cascade(label="View", menu=self.viewmenu)

[modern marsh]

ask away

[peak rampart]

so im trying to create an interface like this

[modern marsh]

alright

[peak rampart]

but how do i design the buttons and text fields like that, and make the text look better with the icon tho?

[modern marsh]

stylesheets

button = QPushButton()
button.setStyleSheet("")
button.setIcon()```

[peak rampart]

oh ok

and what about the text?

[modern marsh]

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/stylesheet-reference.html

https://forum.qt.io/topic/82322/set-qicon-to-qpushbutton

[peak rampart]

also do you mind if i dm you regarding this later?

[modern marsh]

just ask here

[peak rampart]

alr

[modern marsh]

i will not be online all the time

[peak rampart]

oh ok

thnx for your help, ill read the articles

[modern marsh]

np

[peak rampart]

how do i see the entire window like this in qtdesigner

instead of this

[modern marsh]

ah you cannot resize

use QtCreator instead

or create a smaller window which is resizable

[peak rampart]

oh ok

[brittle bolt]

I have 4 labels, & each time the button is clicked the text is going to change so how can i clear the current text when the button is clicked?, I have tried to do things like output1.config(text="") aiming to set the label to a empty one, However is just get this:

Text is just over lapping each other

[digital rose]

@brittle bolt you dont need to clear the text, you can just do this:

output1.config("new text")

and now, bind command to a button, for example:

def ChangeTextOnClick():
    output1.config(text = "new text")

button1 = Button(window, text = "Click Me!", command = ChangeTextOnClick)
button1.pack(side=TOP)

something like this.

[brittle bolt]

i tried this

[digital rose]

mm hmm, you will need to show some more code for reference.

[brittle bolt]

So right now, i have this: - This is in a button, but text just over laps

    output1 = Label(root,)   
    output1.config(bg = 'white', font=("Times", 18), text=dict["name"]) # dict["name"] This changes eah time. Example, New York, London, Japan, etc
    output1.place(x=475, y=30) 

I did have a way using two separate buttons but would much rather have it just work under one button

[digital rose]

right. from what i see is you need to create a button, and add a command to the button to change the text every time. for example:

# this is the command to change the text every time.
def onClick():
    output1.config(text = dict['name'])

button = Button( .. .. .. , command = onClick)
button.place( .. . )

@brittle bolt

[brittle bolt]

yea, i could try that but it seems to over lap when i did try that

1 second

[digital rose]

mm hmm. what text do you presently have on your label?

[digital rose]

overlap?

!paste

[proven basin]

Pasting large amounts of code

If your code is too long to fit in a codeblock in discord, you can paste your code here:
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After pasting your code, save it by clicking the floppy disk icon in the top right, or by typing ctrl + S. After doing that, the URL should change. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[brittle bolt]

To start with the labels are blanked, untill the user requests the data from the API which will then populate them

[digital rose]

ah.

[brittle bolt]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/luqikeruze.lua

[digital rose]

it seems like you have created two labels, one saying something like "homework" and the other one saying something like "new york"?

[brittle bolt]

yea, one is the region of the location & one is name of it

but when u search for another location, the text just pastes it self on top

dosent remove the previous text

[digital rose]

ah. i see the problem now. you dont need two labels for that. just do this:

location = "something"

output1.config(text = f"Location -> {location}")

in other words, using string formatting to join two things together.

so now, you just keep on updating the variable location and config the text like that^.

tkinter will automatically use the updated value of location to change the text.

[brittle bolt]

Right, so mine would like

location = dict["name"]

output1.config(text = f"Location -> {location}")

?

[digital rose]

yes, something like this.

[brittle bolt]

in other words, using string formatting to join two things together.
So its going to join the two words together

[digital rose]

yes.

its only going to update the variable part, you dont need a second label for that.

[brittle bolt]

I'm trying to avoid that, the two labels are meant to be separate. One is region & the other is Name, What i'm aiming to do when the Button is clicked to update the text in region & Name

Inside my button i have this, but it doesnt update the text, instead just will put the new text on top of the old text (causing overlap)

    output1 = Label(root,)   
    output1.config(bg = 'white', font=("Times", 18), text=dict["name"])
    output1.place(x=475, y=30

[digital rose]

right. i think you can do something like this:

# name the labels something better to understand it better:
name = "Los Angeles"
region = "something"

name_label = Label(root, text = f"Place: {name}"
name_label.place( .. .)

region_label = Label(root, text = f"Region: {regiom}"
region_label.place( .. .)

create two separate labels, one for Name and the other for region.

[brittle bolt]

Okay, will do, 1 min and i will try it

    Name_Text = dict["name"]
    Name = Label(root,)   
    Name.config(bg = 'white', font=("Times", 18), text=f"{Name_Text}")
    Name.place(x=475, y=30)

    Region_Text = dict["region"]
    Region = Label(root,)   
    Region.config(bg = 'white', font=("Times", 17), text=f"{Region_Text}")
    Region.place(x=475, y=65)

I have this, is this correct?

[digital rose]

yes it does seem correct. and another thing, you dont need to do this:

something = Label(root,)
something.config( .. )

you can do this:

something = Label(root, text = "", font = .. )
something.place( .. . )

[brittle bolt]

Okay & i still have the same issue : (

Text is just overlapping

[digital rose]

can you send a screenshot?

[brittle bolt]

Yea

[digital rose]

and the updated code as well.

[brittle bolt]

before i do second query

[digital rose]

where do you see an overlap?

[brittle bolt]

After second query

[digital rose]

you're talking about the labels overlapping with the F or C button?

[brittle bolt]

No, under that

[digital rose]

ahh

can you send the updated code?

[brittle bolt]

yea

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/dubufezore.py

[digital rose]

i see what you did wrong there.

you render a new label everytime in API().

that is why it overlaps.

[brittle bolt]

Ah, so remove the label() out of the function but leave the config() in?

[digital rose]

instead do this:

def API():
    global Name, Region # to prevent errors.
    # leave the rest of the code unchanged.
    # just change label text.
    Name.config(text = Name_Text) # because Name_Text gets updated everytime you search.
    Region.config(text = Region_Text)

# now here, leave the rest unchanged, but draw the labels here,
Name = Label( .. . )
Region = Label( .. .. )

[digital rose]

yes, precisely.

what you did wrong was to create a new label every time you searched for a new location, so they kept on piling up.

[brittle bolt]

Ah, Thank you for the help, i'll make them changes now

[digital rose]

here, i did the work for you @brittle bolt .
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/tolekadapa.py

[brittle bolt]

@digital rose Thank you for the help, Works perfect

[digital rose]

no problem 😄

[tawdry mulch]

Does apps made with Qtdesigner actually use coordinates? If I run the app in another system with different resolution will it change its position from what was given in the designer? @modern marsh

[worldly nest]

   File "frontend.py", line 24, in <module>
     PyDFApp().run()
   File "C:\Users\JERSON\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\kivy\app.py", line 949, in run
     self._run_prepare()
   File "C:\Users\JERSON\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\kivy\app.py", line 919, in _run_prepare
     root = self.build()
   File "frontend.py", line 20, in build
     return TextEditor()
   File "frontend.py", line 13, in __init__
     self.add_widget(NavBar())
   File "C:\Users\JERSON\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\kivy\uix\widget.py", line 622, in add_widget
     widget.inc_disabled(self._disabled_count)
 AttributeError: 'TextEditor' object has no attribute '_disabled_count'```im getting this traceback

i dunno what that error means

this is my code btw

class NavBar(Widget):
    pass

class TextEditor(Widget):
    def __init__(self):
        self.add_widget(NavBar())
        self.text_editor = TextInput(font_size=30, center_x=50, top=root.top-40, size=(root.width,1000), background_color=(0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 1))
        self.add_widget(self.text_editor)

class PyDFApp(App):

    def build(self):
        return TextEditor()```

yes im using kivy

[vital surge]

if i develop an app using pyqt5 designer and python with the right mobile res, will it be able to run on android?

[modern marsh]

Uhh I don't think PyQt5 can be used for mobile dev

Ig only QtQuick is available for mobile dev

Hmm ig I'm wrong

My source is a 2013 SO post

Lemme check the current compatibility

@vital surge https://forum.qt.io/topic/110789/how-does-one-make-a-mobile-desktop-app-using-pyqt5

[tawdry mulch]

Will the apps be the same size in all resolutions @modern marsh

[modern marsh]

in what exactly?

[tawdry mulch]

Apps made with Qt designer

[modern marsh]

for PC?

[tawdry mulch]

Yea PC with different resolution

[modern marsh]

uh

well suppose you make a 640x480 app in a 1080p screen

when you run it on 4k it will be too small

[tawdry mulch]

If I make the app in 1920x1080 and then try the app in a 640 will it look same?

[modern marsh]

you might have to adjust the sizes per res

[modern marsh]

what do you mean by same

content wise yes

relative size to screen , no

[tawdry mulch]

Position wise?

Oh okay

Is there anyway to make it dynamic?

[modern marsh]

well

check resolution and scale accordingly was what i did in tkinter

in Qt idk

better to google it

[tawdry mulch]

Hmmm how did you do scaling in tkinter, ive been trying for a while now 😅

[modern marsh]

by scaling i dont mean scaling individual widgets

just scaling the window

to check resolution

there is a WM_height or something attribute

Viseur will know better

[tawdry mulch]

I am aware of that method but

[modern marsh]

there is a resizeEvent in Qt