I would like to make a Tkinter
class
, based on the answer here, which is a Frame
that automatically shows/hides Scrollbar
s around the content as necessary.
The answer that I linked to above works perfectly for my needs, with the caveat that because it's not contained within a class
, it's not reusable. I figured this would be pretty quick and easy, but for some reason, my AutoScrollbar
s never appear once I refactor the code into its own class
, regardless of how much or little of the contents of the Frame
is hidden by the window resizing.
# This class is unchanged from the other answer that I linked to,
# but I'll reproduce its source code below for convenience.
from autoScrollbar import AutoScrollbar
from Tkinter import Button, Canvas, Frame, HORIZONTAL, Tk, VERTICAL
# This is the class I made - something isn't right with it.
class AutoScrollable(Frame):
def __init__(self, top, *args, **kwargs):
Frame.__init__(self, top, *args, **kwargs)
hscrollbar = AutoScrollbar(self, orient = HORIZONTAL)
hscrollbar.grid(row = 1, column = 0, sticky = 'ew')
vscrollbar = AutoScrollbar(self, orient = VERTICAL)
vscrollbar.grid(row = 0, column = 1, sticky = 'ns')
canvas = Canvas(self, xscrollcommand = hscrollbar.set,
yscrollcommand = vscrollbar.set)
canvas.grid(row = 0, column = 0, sticky = 'nsew')
hscrollbar.config(command = canvas.xview)
vscrollbar.config(command = canvas.yview)
# Make the canvas expandable
self.grid_rowconfigure(0, weight = 1)
self.grid_columnconfigure(0, weight = 1)
# Create the canvas contents
self.frame = Frame(canvas)
self.frame.rowconfigure(1, weight = 1)
self.frame.columnconfigure(1, weight = 1)
canvas.create_window(0, 0, window = self.frame, anchor = 'nw')
canvas.config(scrollregion = canvas.bbox('all'))
# This is an example of using my new class I defined above.
# It's how I know my class isn't working quite right.
root = Tk()
autoScrollable = AutoScrollable(root)
autoScrollable.grid(row = 0, column = 0, sticky = 'news')
root.rowconfigure(0, weight = 1)
root.columnconfigure(0, weight = 1)
for i in xrange(10):
for j in xrange(10):
button = Button(autoScrollable.frame, text = '%d, %d' % (i, j))
button.grid(row = i, column = j, sticky = 'news')
autoScrollable.frame.update_idletasks()
root.mainloop()
Here's the source for autoScrollbar
, which I'm including because I import it in the above source, but I don't think the actual problem is here.
# Adapted from here: http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-autoscrollbar.htm
from Tkinter import Scrollbar
class AutoScrollbar(Scrollbar):
'''
A scrollbar that hides itself if it's not needed.
Only works if you use the grid geometry manager.
'''
def set(self, lo, hi):
if float(lo) <= 0.0 and float(hi) >= 1.0:
self.grid_remove()
else:
self.grid()
Scrollbar.set(self, lo, hi)
def pack(self, *args, **kwargs):
raise TclError('Cannot use pack with this widget.')
def place(self, *args, **kwargs):
raise TclError('Cannot use pack with this widget.')