On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:04:50 -0800, chuck wrote:
> On Mar 3, 10:40 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:06:56 -0800, chuck wrote:
>> > I am learning python right now. In the lesson on tkinter I see this
>> > piece of code
>>
>> > from Tkinter import *
>>
>> > class MyFrame(Frame):
>> > def __init__(self):
>> > Frame.__init__(self)
>> > self.grid()
>>
>> > My question is what does "self.grid()" do? I understand that the
>> > grid method registers widgets with the geometry manager and adds them
>> > to the frame
>>
>> Not "the frame" but the container widget that is the parent of the
>> widget on which you call `grid()`. In this case that would be a (maybe
>> implicitly created) `Tkinter.Tk` instance, because there is no explicit
>> parent widget set here. Which IMHO is not a good idea.
>>
>> And widgets that layout themselves in the `__init__()` are a code smell
>> too. No standard widget does this, and it takes away the flexibility
>> of the code using that widget to decide how and where it should be
>> placed.
>
> I think I understand what you're saying! How would you recommend I go
> about this? How do I create an explicit parent?
You create it and pass it as argument to child widgets.
import Tkinter as tk
class MyFrame(tk.Frame):
def __init__(self, parent):
tk.Frame.__init__(self, parent)
> What exactly is meant by "widgets that layout themselves"- what is the
> right way to do this?
Call one of the three layout methods on the widget instance after you
created it, and not in the `__init__()` of the widget.
Your example above "grids" itself at its parent widget, I think at the
next free cell on a grid if you don't give the position as argument.
There is no chance to use another layout manager or to place it in
another cell.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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