Matt Hammond wrote:
> I don't quite understand (if I'm interpreting you correctly) why you
> want separate widgets, all displayed at once, for several hundred
> records - surely better to just reuse the one set of widgets and have
> the scrollbar or back-forward buttons change which record is being
> displayed in the widgets.
I need to re-think things a little. I wanted to be able to quickly
scroll through several hundred entries in the db, and check off (yes/no)
which have been reviewed, updated, or whatever.
I will look at having a fixed number of display widgets and scrolling
through the underlying data to determine which records are currently
displayed/editable.
My first pass was db -> display/edit widgets -> db. So I jumped
(incorrectly) to wanting to 'hold' all record in widgets for
editing.There's no reason I can't use:
db -> master list -> slice -> display/edit widgets -> master list -> db.
i.e. a list holding all the data, display/edit slices controlled by a
scrollbar, and storing the final list when done.
>
> If you're after replacing widgets, then you need to destroy them first.
> Use the self.destroy method and unset/change any variables referencing
> the widget so it get a chance to be garbage collected.
>
> However, if you want a scrollable view onto a larger area, what you
> need to do is use a Canvas, with a window shape on it. You then put a
> frame into that window.
>
> canvas = Tkinter.Canvas( <parent> )
> canvas.grid( ... )
> winID = self.canvas.create_window(0,0, anchor=Tkinter.NW)
>
> Then later you can add a frame to that window on the canvas:
>
> canvas.itemconfigure( winID, window = <my frame> )
> canvas['scrollregion'] = canvas.bbox('all')
>
> Make sure you've created the frame and perhaps called
> update_idletasks() to give it a chance to size itself before shoving it
> onto the canvas.
>
> And of course, the scrollbar!
>
> yscroll = Tkinter.Scrollbar( <parent>, orient=Tkinter.VERTICAL)
> yscroll.grid( ... )
> yscroll['command'] = canvas.yview
> canvas['yscrollcommand'] = yscroll.set
>
Probably, not needed now that I have re-thought the situation, but I do
have several occasions where i need to view and select/deselect 50 or 60
options (checkbuttons). So this will make them much more manageable.
Thanks,
Bill
>
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:33:36 +0100, William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> I need to display a couple of labels and a checkbox from each entry
>> in my database. Simple enough, but there are several hundred
>> records, and I only want to display 5 or 10 at a time. Can this be
>> accomplished by putting everything in a Frame(), using width, height,
>> grid_propagate(0) , and a scrollbar? or do I have to grid 5 rows at
>> a time? If the latter, can I just grid over the previous 5 or do
>> they have to be explicitly removed first.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bill
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