Reputation: 18745
I'm trying to add a ttk calendar
into my Tkinter
GUI. The problem is that it raises _tkinter.TclError: can't pack .34164128 inside .34161248.34161448.34161608
import Tkinter
import tkSimpleDialog
import ttkcalendar
class CalendarDialog(tkSimpleDialog.Dialog):
"""Dialog box that displays a calendar and returns the selected date"""
def body(self, master):
self.calendar = ttkcalendar.Calendar(master)
self.calendar.pack()
def apply(self):
self.result = self.calendar.selection
# Demo code:
def main():
root = Tkinter.Tk()
root.wm_title("CalendarDialog Demo")
def onclick():
print 'click'
cd = CalendarDialog(root)
button = Tkinter.Button(root, text="Click me to see a calendar!", command=onclick)
button.pack()
root.update()
root.mainloop()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
TRACEBACK:
File "C:/Users/Milano/PycharmProjects/MC/plots/ds.py", line 32, in <module>
main()
File "C:/Users/Milano/PycharmProjects/MC/plots/ds.py", line 23, in main
cd = CalendarDialog(root)
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\tkSimpleDialog.py", line 64, in __init__
self.initial_focus = self.body(body)
File "C:/Users/Milano/PycharmProjects/MC/plots/ds.py", line 9, in body
self.calendar = ttkcalendar.Calendar(master)
File "C:\Users\Milano\PycharmProjects\MC\plots\ttkcalendar.py", line 52, in __init__
self.__place_widgets() # pack/grid used widgets
File "C:\Users\Milano\PycharmProjects\MC\plots\ttkcalendar.py", line 110, in __place_widgets
self._calendar.pack(in_=self, expand=1, fill='both', side='bottom')
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1940, in pack_configure
+ self._options(cnf, kw))
_tkinter.TclError: can't pack .34164128 inside .34161248.34161448.34161608
Do you know where is the problem?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 1062
Reputation: 31
I also encountered this problem putting a ttkCalendar into a Dialog box. I suspect the author of this post "borrowed" the same code for building a calendar as I did: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=2ahUKEwiWgYWKsJ3nAhVKl3IEHYrhCU8QFjABegQICBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsvn.python.org%2Fprojects%2Fpython%2Ftrunk%2FDemo%2Ftkinter%2Fttk%2Fttkcalendar.py&usg=AOvVaw0ifTox4EI7CtBFWlRYD_m9
There are two problems I found using this code to create a Calendar object and placing it into a Dialog box.
The first one causes the traceback as shown in the post. The fix is to modify the ttkcalendar.py file to pack the calendar when it is created, not after it is created using the pack() function.
Here is the diff:
102c102
< self._calendar = ttk.Treeview(show='', selectmode='none', height=7)
---
> self._calendar = ttk.Treeview(self, show='', selectmode='none', height=7)
109c109
< self._calendar.pack(in_=self, expand=1, fill='both', side='bottom')
---
> self._calendar.pack(expand=1, fill='both', side='bottom')
Once you make this change, the calendar will appear in the dialog box. However, your problems are not yet done. Another exception occurs when trying to set the minimum size of the calendar:
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/richawil/Applications/anaconda3/envs/TLM/lib/python3.7/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1705, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File "/home/richawil/Documents/Programming/Apps/TLM/TLM/ttkcalendar.py", line 134, in __minsize
width, height = self._calendar.master.geometry().split('x')
AttributeError: 'Calendar' object has no attribute 'geometry'
I have not been able to fix this issue other than to comment out the call to self.__minsize.
63c62,63
< self._calendar.bind('<Map>', self.__minsize)
---
> # Commented out because _calendar object does not support geometry() function
> #self._calendar.bind('<Map>', self.__minsize)
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 337
The fault is that you don't have an __init__
method in the class CalendarDialog
. So just rename the body
method to __init__
. Now you have initialized the instance every time one is made and a pack()
method is defined.
Upvotes: 2