[Tutor] Dynamic TKinter widgets?

[Nathan]

I did consider using a canvas widget, but it looks a bit intimidating right
now. I'm sure I'll get to it eventually.

I don't think I've heard of Pmw. I take it it's a module that has a
"Notebook" widget class?
On Nov 24, 2012 10:33 PM, "Chris Fuller" <cfuller084 at thinkingplanet.net>
wrote:

> On Saturday 24 November 2012, Nathan wrote:
> > I'm working on a simple Tarot reading program in Python 2.7, and I'm
> having
> > a bit of trouble with some GUI abstract. (Sorry, no code in here.)
> >
> > As of right now, all of the logic is working, and I can generate Tarot
> > spreads that tell me, in text, the role of each card "position", and what
> > card is in that position. For example, if I were to use a simple
> three-card
> > past/present/future spread, the output would be something like:
> >
> > Past: Prince of Swords
> > Present: The Hermit
> > Future: Ten of Disks
> >
> > What I'm trying to do now is add support for the card images. the problem
> > is, the program supports multiple types of spreads (two, so far, are
> > selectable), and they use different numbers of cards. It looks like I
> need
> > a variable number of widgets to display something like this. I'm not
> > entirely sure how I would handle something like that.
> >
> > Right now, though, I do have two ideas that I would like to run by you
> > guys.
> >
> > The first is to use one text widget-- as opposed to the one label widget
> > I'm currently using-- and embed the images where the card names would
> be. I
> > would have to try out some demos first, though, to see if I can otherwise
> > use text widgets just as label widgets.
> >
> > The other idea, which seems much more cumbersome, is to create a dummy
> > frame widget, then a frame widget designed specifically for each type of
> > spread. The user selects the spread they want to use (Celtic Cross), and
> > the associated frame gets placed on the GUI.
> >
> > What do you guys think? Is there a better way to deal (ha!) with this?
>
> I think the usual procedure with something like this is a single Canvas
> widget.
>
> You could also use a Notebook with tabs disabled from Pmw or the like to
> implement multiple alternate Frames.  As you say, more cumbersome.
>
> Cheers
>
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