On 8/2/2014 10:16 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 8/2/2014 6:53 PM, Nicholas Cannon wrote:
The only way i can make the buttons look neat and then when i keep pressing one the label gets larger and then half the buttons move out of the screen
With my code below, I tried entering a 20 digit number and the button boxes separate horizontally. This is not exactly what you describe, but it does mess up the initially neat display.
is there a way i can stop the grid from expanding?
One thing I might do, besides using an entry box, it to grid the buttons in a separate frame. I wrote the code below, with the header_rows variable, with that in mind.
This sort of repetitious code is crying for a loop. For one thing, if you want to change the buttons, there should only be one Button call to modify. Since I am still learning to write tkinter myself, I wrote the following, which I suspect does what you wanted and a bit more. from tkinter import * main = Tk() main.title('Calculator') main.geometry('300x350') #main.resizable() # does nothing app = Frame(main) app.grid() total = IntVar() total.set(0) entry = StringVar() entry.set('') Label(app, text='Total').grid(row=0, column=0) Label(app, textvariable=total).grid(row=0, column=1, columnspan=3) Label(app, text='Entry').grid(row=1, column=0) Label(app, textvariable=entry).grid(row=1, column=1, columnspan=3) def append(digit): entry.set(entry.get() + digit) def add(): total.set(total.get() + int(entry.get())) entry.set('') def sub(): total.set(total.get() - int(entry.get())) entry.set('') header_rows = 2 for num, r, c in ( ('7', 0, 0), ('8', 0, 1), ('9', 0, 2), ('4', 1, 0), ('5', 1, 1), ('6', 1, 2), ('1', 2, 0), ('2', 2, 1), ('3', 2, 2), ('0', 3, 0), ('+', 3, 1), ('-', 3, 2),): cmd = {'+':add, '-':sub}.get(num, lambda num=num: append(num)) b = Button(app, text=num, command=cmd, width=5) b.grid(row=header_rows+r, column=c) main.mainloop()
With regard to your next message: If you do not understand the function definitions above, including the lambda expression, and the loop, you should definitely look more at the tutorial.
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