[Tutor] Frames and the grid manager

[Kent Johnson]

Here is a very crude program that demonstrates using two Frames with grids 
in them.
Phew, it took me forever to get this to work, I'm a Tkinter newbie myself. 
Turns out that Frame(master).grid(row=0) does NOT return the Frame 
created...for some reason I always thought it did :-(

Kent

#!/usr/bin/python
from Tkinter import *

def buildInput(master):
     fileInputFrame = Frame(master)
     fileInputFrame.grid(row=0)
     Label(fileInputFrame, text="Input file:").grid(row=0, sticky=W)
     Entry(fileInputFrame).grid(row=0, column=1)

     Label(fileInputFrame, text="Output file:").grid(row=1, sticky=W)
     Entry(fileInputFrame).grid(row=1, column=1)


def buildButtons(master):
     buttonFrame = Frame(master)
     buttonFrame.grid(row=1)
     Button(buttonFrame, text='Testing Testing').grid(row=0)
     Label(buttonFrame, text='Some text').grid(row=0, column=1)
     Button(buttonFrame, text='Cancel').grid(row=1, column=1)


root = Tk()
buildInput(root)
buildButtons(root)
root.mainloop()


At 08:16 PM 8/23/2004 +0200, Klas Marteleur wrote:
>Hi again
>I feel kind of stupid but dont understand anyway (better to admit it and try
>to learn).
>
>I dont get the frame thing to work... i have tried several ways but i am kind
>of stuck here:
>--------------------------------------
>#!/usr/bin/python
>from Tkinter import *
>import tkFileDialog, sys
>
>class CreateEbom(Frame):
>     def __init__(self,master):
>         self.myMaster = master
>         self.myMaster.title('Tragic Converter Beta 0.3')
>         self.buildGUI()
>
>     def buildGUI(self):
>         fileInputFrame = Frame(self)
>         self.inputFile = Label(fileInputFrame, text="Input file:")
>         self.inputFile.pack(side=TOP)
>         self.outputFile =Label(fileInputFrame, text="Output file:")
>         self.outputFile.pack(side=TOP)
>
>root = Tk()
>createebom = CreateEbom(root)
>root.mainloop()
>------------------------------------------
>
>I want to place both labels in a frame, place them internely in that frame
>using grid.
>
>...and place that frame inside my main window using grid.
>
>Please be patient with me... and take it even slower this time.... :)
>
>Thanks everyone
>Klas
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