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How do you overlap widgets/frames in python tkinter?


I was wondering if this is even possible. My goal is to have a small white box in the bottom right hand corner, on top of a larger text field. The white box will be used as an "info box" while the person scrolls through the text inside of the text field.

When I say "text field" I mean Text from tkinter.


Solution

  • The way to place one widget on top of other widgets is to use the place geometry manager. You can specify an x/y coordinate relative to some other widget, as well as to specify either absolute or relative widths and heights.

    The old effbot site has a decent writeup on the place geometry manager. Here is an archived version

    Here's a simple example:

    import Tkinter as tk
    
    class Example(tk.Frame):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            tk.Frame.__init__(self, parent)
            self.text = tk.Text(self, wrap="word")
            self.vsb = tk.Scrollbar(self, orient="vertical", command=self.text.yview)
            self.text.configure(yscrollcommand=self.text_yview)
            self.vsb.pack(side="right", fill="y")
            self.text.pack(side="left", fill="both", expand=True)
    
            # create an info window in the bottom right corner and
            # inset a couple of pixels
            self.info = tk.Label(self.text, width=20, borderwidth=1, relief="solid")
            self.info.place(relx=1.0, rely=1.0, x=-2, y=-2,anchor="se")
    
        def text_yview(self, *args):
            ''' 
            This gets called whenever the yview changes.  For this example
            we'll update the label to show the line number of the first
            visible row. 
            '''
            # first, update the scrollbar to reflect the state of the widget
            self.vsb.set(*args)
    
            # get index of first visible line, and put that in the label
            index = self.text.index("@0,0")
            self.info.configure(text=index)
    
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        root = tk.Tk()
        Example(root).pack(side="top", fill="both", expand=True)
        root.mainloop()