[Tkinter-discuss] Problem facing in lift and tkraise urgent

[Michael Lange]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:35:44 -0700 (PDT)
YMohan <yogendra_mohan at oxyent-medical.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am facing the issues while using the lift or tkraise with create_window
> objects. its not working. I am trying to do the show one window at a time. I
> have created two window objects using the create_window and try to launch
> the first one. The following code I have written
> 
> from Tkinter import *
> root = Tk()
> canvas = Canvas(root, width=300, height=300, bg='white')   # 0,0 is top left
> corner
> canvas.pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH)                   # increases down, right
> 
> def setAbove():
>     canvas.tkraise(objectID1)
> #    print "after tk raise"
> 
> widget1 = Frame(canvas, bg='red', height=100, width=100)
> widget2 = Frame(canvas, bg='blue', height=100, width=100)
> objectID1=canvas.create_window(100, 100, window=widget1)        # embed a
> widget
> objectID2=canvas.create_window(100, 100, window=widget2)        # embed a
> widget
> root.after(5000, setAbove)
> root.mainloop()
> 
> Let me know what am I doing wrong or any other way to do the same?
> 

>From the canvas man page:

(...)the stacking order of window items is not affected by any of the canvas widget commands; you must use the raise and lower Tk commands instead. 

So the solution is to call widget1.lift() instead of canvas.tkraise(objectID1).

HTH

Michael


> Thanks in advance.
> 
> YMohan
> 
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