Question

I have been trying to create a small GUI for a definition-tester program I am making. My GUI needs to look like this:

Word: # label, then entry widget
Definition: # label, entry widget
Part of Speech: # label, then entry widget
Go Quit # each are buttons

This is what I have so far:

from Tkinter import *

class GetWord:
    def __init__(self, master):
        self.frame = Frame(master)
        self.frame.pack()
        self.wordL = Label(self.frame, text = 'Word: ')
        self.wordL.pack(side = 'left')
        self.wordE = Entry(self.frame)
        self.wordE.pack(side = 'right', after=self.wordL)
        self.defL = Label(self.frame, text = 'Definitions: ')
        self.defL.pack(side = 'left', after=self.wordE)
        self.defE = Entry(self.frame)
        self.defE.pack(side = 'right', after=self.defL)
        self.posL = Label(self.frame, text = 'Part of Speech: ')
        self.posL.pack(side = 'left', after=self.defE)
        self.posE = Entry(self.frame)
        self.posE.pack(side = 'right', after=self.posL)
        self.buttonE = Button(self.frame, text = 'Go', command = self.getInfo)
        self.buttonE.pack(side='bottom', after=self.posE)
        self.quitB = Button(self.frame, text = 'Quit', fg = 'red', command = self.frame.quit)
        self.quitB.pack(side='bottom', after=self.buttonE)
    def getInfo(self):
        print self.wordE.get(), self.defE.get(), self.posE.get()

root = Tk()
f = GetWord(root)
root.mainloop()

However, they don’t line up. How can I associate them each as a ‘row’ (one label, one entry per ‘row’, and a final ‘row’ with the two buttons)/

Also, I’m not sure how this part works:

root = Tk()
f = GetWord(root)
root.mainloop()

root does not directly reference the GetWord class, so I don’t know how it is working. If someone could explain this to me, that’d be great. Thanks!

Answer 1

To do this, you must substitute pack with grid. When using grid, you must first name the widget (for example) f = Label(#info). Then, you set the grid, which is similar to pack, but allows more control. f.grid(row =1, column = 1, sticky = W). To understand more about grid, look here: http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/grid.htm