I will like to create a clear button that will delete all the records in the treeview while at the same time, I am trying to improve my OOP via Tkinter at the same. (So if there is other non-best practice in the code; could you please advise as well).
From what I found out through googling, I could possibl use a get_children method on treeview, retrieve them and then subsequently deleting them one bye one.
def delButton(self):
x = main.tree.get_children()
for item in x:
main.tree.delete(item)
However, i keep getting attribute error : AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_children'. Is it the way I reference in in my classes?
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk,messagebox
gray = '#808080'
green = '#7FFF00'
black = '#000000'
filter_font = ('Arial',12,'bold')
search_font = ('Arial',10)
class News:
def __init__(self):
self.window = tk.Tk()
self.window.geometry("1000x500")
self.window.resizable(0,0)
self.quit_button = self.create_quit_button()
self.clear_button = self.create_clear_button()
self.tree_view = self.create_tree_view()
def create_tree_view(self):
self.tree = ttk.Treeview(self.window,columns=(1,2,3,4) , show= 'headings',height='12')
self.tree.grid(row=0, column=0, rowspan=6, columnspan=9, padx=10, pady=10)
self.tree.column(1,width=70)
self.tree.column(2,width=70)
self.tree.heading(1,text ='Hello',anchor='w')
self.tree.heading(2,text ='World',anchor='w')
self.tree.insert(parent='',index='end',iid=0,values = ['John','John@gmail.com'])
self.tree.insert(parent='',index='end',iid=1,values = ['John','John@gmail.com'])
self.tree.grid(row=0, column=0, rowspan=6, columnspan=9, padx=10, pady=10)
def create_clear_button(self):
self.clear_button = tk.Button(self.window,text='Clear',fg=green,bg = black,command = lambda : self.clear())
self.clear_button.grid(row=0,column=20)
def create_quit_button(self):
quit_button = tk.Button(self.window,text='Quit',fg=green,bg = black,command =lambda: self.quit())
quit_button.grid(row =4,column = 10)
def quit(self):
self.window.quit()
def run(self):
self.window.mainloop()
def clear(self):
for item in self.tree_view.get_children():
self.tree.delete(item)
return (self.tree)
if __name__ == '__main__':
news = News()
news.run()
Note that inside clear(), you have used self.tree_view in the line for item in ..., while self.tree is used inside the for loop block:
def clear(self):
for item in self.tree_view.get_children(): # used self.tree_view
self.tree.delete(item) # used self.tree
return (self.tree)
self.tree_view is None because it is the result of create_tree_view() which does not return anything:
self.tree_view = self.create_tree_view()
Actually you don't need self.tree_view, use self.tree in clear():
def clear(self):
for item in self.tree.get_children(): # used self.tree instead
self.tree.delete(item)
#return (self.tree) # return here is useless as clear() is triggered by a button