CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythontkinter
user1683793
user1683793

Reputation: 1313

How do I set the position of an Entry Scollbar?

In the following program, I display an Entry box that I want to be able to have a scroll bar right under my Entry box. This works but the scroll bar is at the bottom, not under the Entry box. 

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()
calc = Frame(root)
calc.grid()

def saveIt():
    print(text_box.get())

text_box = Entry(calc, justify=RIGHT, width=20)
text_box.grid(row=1, column = 0, pady = 5)
text_box.insert(0, "testtest1234567890testtest")

scrollbar=Scrollbar(root,orient=HORIZONTAL, command=text_box.xview, width=10)
scrollbar.grid(row=2,  column = 0,sticky=E+W, pady=4)

save_button = Button(calc, text = "save")
save_button["command"] = lambda: saveIt()
save_button.grid(row=3, column = 0, pady = 5)

text_box.config(xscrollcommand=scrollbar.set)
root.mainloop()

Since I am just starting to learn Python and tkinter, any and all comments (or even solutions to the problem) will be gladly received.

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 30

Answers (1)

gil
gil

Reputation: 2144

This is because the parent widget of text_box and save_button is calc, whose parent is root, and the parent of the scroll bar is also root. So calc as a whole is gridded above the scroll bar, and so everything inside calc is above the scroll bar too. You just need to change

scrollbar = Scrollbar(root, orient=HORIZONTAL, command=text_box.xview, width=10)

to 

scrollbar = Scrollbar(calc, orient=HORIZONTAL, command=text_box.xview, width=10)

Upvotes: 2

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