I want to create Buttons with a text and define a function that prints me the text on the monitor when i press the button.
Everything works well without classes:
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
def PressButton():
print(FirstButton.cget('text'))
root = Tk()
root.title("Simple Calculator")
ButtonsFrame = ttk.Frame(root,relief= "groove").grid()
FirstButton=ttk.Button(ButtonsFrame, text=1, command= PressButton)
FirstButton.grid()
root.mainloop()
"1" is printed on the monitor when I press FirstButton
.
Because I want to have a lot of Buttons, I created a class MyButton
with the parent ttk.Button
:
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
class MyButton(ttk.Button):
def __init__(self, text):
self.text=text
super().__init__()
self.Button=ttk.Button(ButtonsFrame, text=self.text, command=self.PressButton)
def PressButton(self):
print(self.Button.cget('text'))
root = Tk()
root.title("Simple Calculator")
ButtonsFrame = ttk.Frame(root,relief= "groove").grid()
FirstButton=MyButton(1)
FirstButton.grid()
root.mainloop()
Here a button is created but without text at all.
I found out that if I change the super().__init__()
to super()._init__(text=self.text)
then I get a Button with the right text but the PressButton
command doesnt work. I tried diffent things with *args
aswell but had no success.
What am I doing wrong? I would appreciate any help.
The main problem is that you're not specifying the parent widget for the parent in the constructor.
Here's corrected version of code:
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
class MyButton(ttk.Button):
def __init__(self, parent, text):
self.text=text
super().__init__(parent, text=self.text, command=self.PressButton)
def PressButton(self):
print(self.cget('text'))
root = Tk()
root.title("Simple Calculator")
ButtonsFrame = ttk.Frame(root,relief= "groove").grid()
FirstButton=MyButton(ButtonsFrame, 1)
FirstButton.grid()
root.mainloop()
You could've also swapped super(). with this:
super(MyButton,self).__init__(parent, text=self.text,command=self.PressButton)
Which is equal to super().__init__(parent, text=self.text, command=self.PressButton)
You can read more about it here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#super