[Tkinter-discuss] embedding in Tkinter

[John McMonagle]

On 06/09/11 22:24, Alessandro Magni wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I hope somebody here can give me a hand - I'm not so expert in GUI programming.
> I tried - in a Tkinter program I'm writing - to embed a terminal
> (linux here) in the main window - the program is a simple wiki, and I
> believe it's useful to have a small terminal handy...
> Optionally, I would like also to be able to let my program interact
> with the terminal - at a minimum I'd like to read the current working
> directory, and to set it.
> 
> I tried asking about it on stackoverflow, but without much results
> (apart from some suggestions about pyGTK being the wave of the future,
> of course...)
> 
> I don't know if it is really impossible - but at least I was able to
> do it in the past with Perl/Tk, so maybe it can be replicated here.
> 
> The code I used then was something like:
> 
> $frame3=$mw->Frame();
> $cv=$frame3->Canvas()->pack(-expand => 1, -fill => 'both');
> 
> my $xtermContainer = $cv->Frame(-container => 1);  # this Frame is
> needed for including the xterm in Tk::Canvas
> 
> my $xtid = $xtermContainer->id();
> my ($xtId) = sprintf hex $xtid;  # converting the id from HEX to
> decimal as xterm requires a decimal Id
> 
> my $dcontitem = $cv->createWindow($xtermWidth/2,$xtermHeight/2,
>                                            -window => $xtermContainer,
>                                            -width => $xtermWidth,
>                                            -height => $xtermHeight,
>                                            -state => 'normal');
> 
> system("xterm -into $xtId -fn $fontname -geometry $geometry +sb -bg
> black -fg white -e ./xtermjob.pl  &");
> 
> 
> 
> (...hoping no python purist wants to shoot me in the head for showing
> perl in a python mailing list :-)
> 
> 
> 
> I tried using a code similar to the following, but it doesnt work...
> 
> termf = Frame(root)
> termf.pack(side=BOTTOM, fill=X)
> id=termf.winfo_id()
> os.system("xterm -into %d -e /root/.bashrc &" % id);
> 
> Does somebody here have an experience with this problem?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot!

I've modified your little example above with some success:

from Tkinter import *
import os

root = Tk()
termf = Frame(root, height=200, width=400)
termf.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES)
wid = termf.winfo_id()
os.system('xterm -into %d -geometry 400x200 -e /root/.bashrc&' % wid)

root.mainloop()


Happy experimenting,

John

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