[issue44429] Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager
Gary Davenport added the comment: Just an update on this issue. I did make 2 packages available on pypi.org: https://pypi.org/project/flowframe/ and https://pypi.org/project/tkinterflow/ Thank you very much for your help. -- resolution: -> works for me stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue44429> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue44429] Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager
Gary Davenport added the comment: Thank you so much for the kind words and help in giving me some direction with these projects. I am relatively new to Python, object oriented programming and open source collaboration. I think the 3rd party module probably makes the most sense, because this is how I am currently using it. The beginning of my code typically looks like this: from tkinter import * from tkinterFlow import * But I will have to look at how to make or publish a module and so forth. Then I would maintain the module with new releases. I am also going to study Tk more. I am fairly certain I can add the flow manager at that level. Really the flow geometry manager as I have made isn't really a manager on its own. It uses the grid managers methods. (it could use the place instead of grid, but I chose grid). The main question I suppose would be does the community want a .flow method added to the Widgets in Tk or a 3rd party module? I think I could make either one, given some time and study. For now I will look into making the 3rd party module. This is a skill I need to develop notwithstanding this flow manager project. My main goal is just to make it easy for someone to implement flow behaviour. Thanks again to everyone for your time and direction. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue44429> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue44429] Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager
New submission from Gary Davenport : Hi there. I love Python and Tkinter. I know that there are geometry managers pack, place, and grid. I think there should be a flow type management available, like what is done in Java or html/css. This is more important as responsive GUI design is needed with different screen sizes. I initially addressed this by inheriting from the Frame in tkinter to a 'FlowFrame' object and anything in that Frame would have flow geometry. But this is a little awkward because the syntax is widget.pack() or widget.grid(), etc, so the method is linked to the widget. So I altered the tkinter __init__.py wrapper to add the .flow method so you can use widget.flow() syntax. The flow geometry manager uses the grid managers methods. The changes are straight-forward and I have 3 related projects on github: 1) https://github.com/garydavenport73/tkinterFlow - there are only 2 versions so history will demonstrate the relatively simple changes. 2) https://github.com/garydavenport73/FlowFrame - a related project, FlowFrame object 3) https://github.com/garydavenport73/cpython the formal changes to the most recent https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.9/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py file. -- components: Tkinter hgrepos: 405 messages: 395900 nosy: Gary73 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager versions: Python 3.9 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue44429> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
