🔒 My frame keeps disappearing

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[upper briar]

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk


window=tk.Tk()
window.title("IDK")
window.geometry("500x500")
window.configure(bg = "pink")

window.columnconfigure(1,weight=1)
window.columnconfigure(1, weight=1)

colour = str(window.cget('bg'))

var = tk.StringVar()
var.set(colour)

def ColourChange() -> None:
    window.configure(bg="yellow")
    var.set("yellow")
    ShowColour.config(text=f"The colour is {var.get()}")


def ColourChange1() -> None:
    window.configure(bg="blue")
    var.set("blue")
    ShowColour.config(text=f"The colour is {var.get()}")


def ColourChange2() -> None:
    window.configure(bg="green")
    var.set("green")
    ShowColour.config(text=f"The colour is {var.get()}")

Button1 = ttk.Button(window,text= "Turn me yellow", command = ColourChange)
Button1.grid(column=0,row=1)

Button2 = ttk.Button(window,text= "Turn me blue", command = ColourChange1)
Button2.grid(column=0,row=2)

Button3 = ttk.Button(window,text = "Turn me green", command = ColourChange2)
Button3.grid(column=0,row=3)

ShowColour = ttk.Label(window,font="Consolas 15",width=30,text="The colour is %s" % var.get())
ShowColour.grid(column=0,row=4)

#part 2
username = tk.StringVar()
password = tk.StringVar()

LoginFrame = tk.Frame(window,bg="purple",width="500",height="500")
LoginFrame.grid(column=2,row=5)

#PROBLEM IS HERE
UserLab = ttk.Label(LoginFrame,text="Enter your username")
UserLab.grid(column=2,row=5)
UserEnt = ttk.Entry(LoginFrame, textvariable = username)
UserEnt.grid(column=3,row=5)

LoginFrame.mainloop()
window.mainloop()

Whenever I add the entrybox

My frame disappears however when I remove the entrybox it comes back

[rich vine]

I'd assume that UserLab and UserEnt need to use their own grid layout, independent from the "window" frame.
instead of column=2 and row=5, try some lower values, like column=0, row=0 etc.

At least that would be my assumption. Never used tkinter

(and LoginFrame.mainloop() probably also doesn't belong. There should only be one mainloop ever)

after researching a bit, using something like the sticky argument might also help:

LoginFrame.grid(column=1,row=0,rowspan=5,sticky="nsew")

[upper briar]

I tried removing the LoginFrame.mainloop but it didnt change anything

[rich vine]

nsew = north+south+east+west

[upper briar]

Ok i'lltry that

[rich vine]

well, the "mainloop" part was just a side comment. the other parts I mentioned before are more important

[upper briar]

It worked

Is height an atrribute of frame?

Like can i use that to increase the frame vertically

[rich vine]

try it. I don't know

[upper briar]

I cant get the height of the frame to increase

It only goes horizontally (rowspan)

But before I added the entry button it was 500x500

like that

@rich vine

[rich vine]

I don't really know tkinter.
But it seems you somehow got a 2x2 there. no idea how to fix any of that

[upper briar]

Ok no problem thank you

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