Tk Scrollbar

[Fredrik Lundh]

> I have only an easy question. I think it is possible to bind a scrollbar
> and an other widget e.g. a frame with buttons. But I have not found any
> literature or programming examples. I want to bind the scrollbar to an
> frame and I don't know how. Please help me.

you cannot.  period.

but you can put the frame in a canvas, and
add scrollbars to the canvas.    the following
example does this (and more).

</F>

#
# tk045 -- scrolled frame with autohiding scrollbars
#
# fredrik lundh, august 1998
#
# fredrik at pythonware.com
# http://www.pythonware.com
#

from Tkinter import *

class AutoScrollbar(Scrollbar):
    # a scrollbar that hides itself if it's not needed.  only
    # works if you use the grid geometry manager.
    def set(self, lo, hi):
        if float(lo) <= 0.0 and float(hi) >= 1.0:
            # grid_remove is currently missing from Tkinter!
            self.tk.call("grid", "remove", self)
        else:
            self.grid()
        Scrollbar.set(self, lo, hi)
    def pack(self, **kw):
        raise TclError, "cannot use pack with this widget"
    def place(self, **kw):
        raise TclError, "cannot use place with this widget"

#
# create scrolled canvas

root = Tk()

vscrollbar = AutoScrollbar(root)
vscrollbar.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky=N+S)
hscrollbar = AutoScrollbar(root, orient=HORIZONTAL)
hscrollbar.grid(row=1, column=0, sticky=E+W)

canvas = Canvas(root, 
                yscrollcommand=vscrollbar.set, 
                xscrollcommand=hscrollbar.set)
canvas.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky=N+S+E+W)

vscrollbar.config(command=canvas.yview)
hscrollbar.config(command=canvas.xview)

# make the canvas expandable
root.grid_rowconfigure(0, weight=1)
root.grid_columnconfigure(0, weight=1)

#
# create canvas contents

frame = Frame(canvas)
frame.rowconfigure(1, weight=1)
frame.columnconfigure(1, weight=1)

rows = 5 
for i in range(1,rows):
    for j in range(1,10):
        button = Button(frame, padx=7, pady=7, text="[%d,%d]" % (i,j))
        button.grid(row=i, column=j, sticky='news')

canvas.create_window(0, 0, anchor=NW, window=frame)

frame.update_idletasks()

canvas.config(scrollregion=canvas.bbox("all"))

root.mainloop()