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Jon
Jon

Reputation: 113

Python Tkinter buttons - no text

I'm having a bit of a play with tkinter buttons. Im wanting to insert some buttons into a clock script I have.

Inserting the button Exit (3rd line from bottom) inserts a button ok, and the button works, but it refuses to show any text on the button.

How can I show text on this button?

import sys
if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
    from Tkinter import *
    import Tkinter as tk
else:
    from tkinter import *
    import tkinter as tk

from time import *


fontsize=75
fontname="Comic Sans MS"        #font name - use Fontlist script for names
fontweight="bold"       #"bold" for bold, "normal" for normal 
fontslant="roman"       #"roman" for normal, "italic" for italics

def quit():
    clock.destroy()

def getTime():
    day = strftime("%A")
    date = strftime("%d %B %Y")
    time = strftime("%I:%M:%S %p")
    text.delete('1.0', END)                 #delete everything
    text.insert(INSERT, '\n','mid')
    text.insert(INSERT, day + '\n', 'mid')        #insert new time and new line
    text.insert(INSERT, date + '\n', 'mid')
    text.insert(INSERT, time + '\n', 'mid')
    clock.after(900, getTime)               #wait 0.5 sec and go again


clock = tk.Tk() # make it cover the entire screen
w= clock.winfo_screenwidth()
h= clock.winfo_screenheight()
clock.overrideredirect(1)
clock.geometry("%dx%d+0+0" % (w, h))
clock.focus_set() # <-- move focus to this widget
clock.bind("<Escape>", lambda e: e.widget.quit())
text = Text(clock, font=(fontname, fontsize, fontweight, fontslant))
text.grid(column = 1, columnspan = 1, row = 2, rowspan = 1, sticky='')           

Exit = Button(clock, text="Close Tkinter Window", width = w, height = 1, command=quit).grid(row = 1, rowspan = 1, column = 1, columnspan = w)

clock.after(900, getTime)
clock.mainloop()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1653

Answers (3)

MSA msa
MSA msa

Reputation: 83

The Basic structure for Button in Tkinter is 

button1=Button(root,text="This is text ",command=functionname)
button1.pack()

Upvotes: 0

Parviz Karimli
Parviz Karimli

Reputation: 1287

The value of w (clock.winfo_screenwidth()) is too wide for a button width. It just slides the name of the button too much to the left. So change the width of the button to a smaller number (200), and add sticky=W to the grid, so it won't slide too much anymore. Meanwhile, the width of the button will cover the whole width of the parent window (as you wish). So here's what to replace:

Exit = Button(clock, text="Close Tkinter Window", width = 200, height = 1, command=quit).grid(row = 1, rowspan = 1, column = 1, columnspan = w, sticky=W)

Upvotes: 0

Jon
Jon

Reputation: 113

Sort of solved it. The button was showing text - it was just off the screen. Solved it by adjusting the width of the tkinter text window and the buttons.

Upvotes: 2

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