[Tutor] Clock in tkinter?

[Mic]

From: Wayne Werner 
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:38 PM
To: Mic 
Cc: tutor at python.org 
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Clock in tkinter?




On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Mic <o0MB0o at hotmail.se> wrote:

  I wonder if you have any suggestions regarding how to place widgets in my window.
  Even though I try to arrange them as orderly as possible they get placed at all different kind of places in the window.
  I use the grid method and place them in the window by using row=something and column=something.

  It just doesn’t look good. It looks okay I suppose, but not as good as I want it to look.

 http://twitpic.com/2t4n9q/full
 http://twitpic.com/2t4n9p/full

Those images might help you understand a little bit more about the grid layout.


  So if I got it right. Inside the constructor (__init__) I should declare:
  self.the_time=’’
  Then, if I understood it right, I should also place the function call there?
  self.update_time() as you refered to?

Your constructor should look something like this:

def __init__(self):
    #Your call to super
    self.the_time = ''
    # your other code
    self.update_time()

I don't know for sure that it will work, but I expect that it will.

HTH,
Wayne


Okay, to begin with, I hope I am replying correctly now.

I will work to get my code into the constructor instead of
having them in the global scope.

Thanks for the pictures, I have now manged to organize the 
widgets in a much better way.

I wonder, how do I add a background picture to my GUI window?


So far, I thought I could make a label that is as large as the 
entire window, and then add a picture to it. The other widgets 
are supposed to be placed on top of the picture.

But I am lost on how to accomplish this. Can you point me in the 
right direction to solve this?


Mic
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