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vega2015
vega2015

Reputation: 139

Create-Delete Buttons

I'm trying to make two buttons in Tkinter using python version 3.3, one to create a button and one to delete said button. It has been working so far except for the fact that if I create more than one button I can only delete one the the created buttons. My question is: is there anything I can do to be able to delete a button every time the delete button is called upon? This is my code so far:

from tkinter import *
def createbutton():
    global secondbut
    secondbut=Button(root,text="button")
    secondbut.pack()
def eliminatebutton():
    secondbut.destroy()
if __name__=='__main__':
    root=Tk()
    global create
    global delete
    create= Button(root,text="create",command=createbutton)
    delete=Button(root,text="delete",command=eliminatebutton)
    create.pack()
    delete.pack()
    root.mainloop()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 76

Answers (1)

IanPudney
IanPudney

Reputation: 6031

The problem is that you're storing your Button in a variable (secondbut), then overwriting that variable if you create a new button.

Instead of directly storing it in a variable, store it in some container, such as a list.

This code will do what you want:

from tkinter import *
def createbutton():
    global secondbut
    secondbut.append(Button(root,text="button"))
    secondbut[-1].pack()
def eliminatebutton():
    secondbut[-1].destroy()
    secondbut.pop()
if __name__=='__main__':
    root=Tk()
    global create
    global delete
    global secondbut
    secondbut = []
    create= Button(root,text="create",command=createbutton)
    delete=Button(root,text="delete",command=eliminatebutton)
    create.pack()
    delete.pack()
    root.mainloop()

Note that it removes buttons in the opposite order it adds them.

Upvotes: 1

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