In the following, the buttons labelled 'ONE', 'TWO', and 'THR' do not get evenly spaced out. It seems to me that the root of the problem is that Tk is assuming a default minimum width for any column containing part of a widget that spans multiple columns. However, this behaviour appears to be undocumented, so I am unsure how to accommodate for or adjust it in order to get the columns to be of equal width - including the two columns spanned by the text widget and the single column not spanned by the text widget - and thus space out the buttons evenly. I could kludge it by trial and error, i.e. padding out the latter column until it matches the former two, but that seems a poor solution.
EDIT: Following discussion below with @jwillis0720, I've added an extra column (3) and button ('FIV') to make the problem clearer. This question is about how to get columns the same width when some of those columns are spanned by multi-column widgets and others are not.
import Tkinter
master = Tkinter.Tk()
Tkinter.Button(master, text='ONE').grid(row=0, column=0)
Tkinter.Button(master, text='TWO').grid(row=0, column=1)
Tkinter.Button(master, text='THR').grid(row=0, column=2)
Tkinter.Button(master, text='FOU').grid(row=1, column=2)
Tkinter.Button(master, text='FIV').grid(row=0, column=3) # added as per above edit
Tkinter.Text(master).grid(row=1, column=0, columnspan=2)
master.mainloop()
Please note that using grid_columnconfigure
with uniform
does not solve this problem. Inserting the following lines (see answer to similar question here: How to create equal-width columns in Python 2.7 with Tkinter) simply makes the columns stretchy; they remain unevenly sized:
master.grid_columnconfigure(0, weight=1, uniform='a')
master.grid_columnconfigure(1, weight=1, uniform='a')
master.grid_columnconfigure(2, weight=1, uniform='a')
master.grid_columnconfigure(3, weight=1, uniform='a') # added as per above edit
I think you might want to use the sticky option.
sticky= Defines how to expand the widget if the resulting cell is
larger than the widget itself. This can be any combination of the
constants S, N, E, and W, or NW, NE, SW, and SE.
For example, W (west) means that the widget should be aligned to the
left cell border. W+E means that the widget should be stretched
horizontally to fill the whole cell. W+E+N+S means that the widget
should be expanded in both directions. Default is to center the widget
in the cell.
import Tkinter
master = Tkinter.Tk()
Tkinter.Button(master, text='ONE').grid(row=0, column=0, sticky='NW')
Tkinter.Button(master, text='TWO').grid(row=0, column=1, sticky='NW')
Tkinter.Button(master, text='THR').grid(row=0, column=2, sticky='NW')
Tkinter.Button(master, text='FOU').grid(row=1, column=2)
Tkinter.Text(master).grid(row=1, column=0, columnspan=2)
master.mainloop()
Edit
What does it look like. Mine looks like this evenly spaced except the text widget takes up two columns as specified.
old post I know, but I also struggled to get the columns and rows to maintain a common width/height so I thought I would share my solution
newish to python and tkinter, so if there are any mistakes please let me know
I created a grid manager, this allowed the main window and any frame to be setup with evenly spaced columns and rows, it's not 100% but for what I was using it for it worked well, it was especially useful during the building phase
one downside when creating a frame is the maximum number of rows/columns of the frame must be equal to or less than the number or rows/columns it is spanning, otherwise it goes a bit weird (nut sure why)
hope this helps
import tkinter
class grid_manager:
def __init__(self, Frame, colour = "gray94"):
self.Frame = Frame
self.Colour = colour
def set_grid(self, numofRows, numofColumns, borderwidth = 1):
self.numofRows = numofRows
self.numofColumns = numofColumns
self.borderwidth = borderwidth
for i in range(numofRows):
for j in range(numofColumns):
canvas = tkinter.Canvas(self.Frame)
canvas.config(relief="raised", borderwidth=self.borderwidth) #comment out to hide grid layout
canvas.grid(row=i, column=j)
canvas.config(background=self.Colour)
self.Frame.columnconfigure(j, weight=1)
self.Frame.rowconfigure(i, weight=1)
mainwindow = tkinter.Tk()
mainwindow.title("Test")
mainwindow.geometry("640x480-8-200")
mainGrid = grid_manager(mainwindow)
mainGrid.set_grid(10, 10)
header_Frame = tkinter.Frame(mainwindow)
header_Frame.grid(row=0, column=0, columnspan=10, sticky="nsew")
headerGrid = grid_manager(header_Frame)
headerGrid.set_grid(numofRows=1, numofColumns=10, borderwidth=5)
footerFrame = tkinter.Frame(mainwindow)
footerFrame.grid(row=9, column=0, columnspan=10, sticky="nsew")
footerGrid = grid_manager(footerFrame, "red")
footerGrid.set_grid(numofRows=1, numofColumns=10, borderwidth=5)
rightFrame = tkinter.Frame(mainwindow)
rightFrame.grid(row=1, column=5, rowspan=5, columnspan=5, sticky="nsew")
rightGrid = grid_manager(rightFrame, "blue")
rightGrid.set_grid(numofRows=5, numofColumns=5, borderwidth=2)
leftFrame = tkinter.Frame(mainwindow)
leftFrame.grid(row=3, column=0, rowspan=5, columnspan=4, sticky="nsew")
leftGrid = grid_manager(leftFrame, "yellow")
leftGrid.set_grid(numofRows=5, numofColumns=4, borderwidth=2)
mainwindow.mainloop()
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import tkinter
master = tkinter.Tk()
tkinter.Button(master, text='ONE ').grid(row=0, column=3, sticky='NW')
tkinter.Button(master, text='TWO ').grid(row=1, column=3, sticky='NW')
tkinter.Button(master, text='THR ').grid(row=2, column=3, sticky='NW')
tkinter.Button(master, text='FOU ').grid(row=3, column=3, sticky='NW')
tkinter.Text(master).grid(column=30, columnspan=10)