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user4813927
user4813927

Reputation:

Kivy BoxLayout.orientation

I am new to kivy. There is something about the orientation property of the BoxLayout class which is confusing me: if i set the orientation to vertical the child widgets are actually set up horizontally and vice versa. What am i understanding wrong? Why is that decided to be so and not other way around which is more intuitive? Here are my codes:

# main.py
from kivy.app import App

class LernApp(App):

    pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
    LernApp().run()


# lern.kv
BoxLayout
    orientation: "vertical"
    Button
        text: "Button1"
    Button
        text: "Button2"

This produces this window:

enter image description here

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1558

Answers (2)

zockchin
zockchin

Reputation: 93

I don't understand what you want exactly, but I think you want the buttons horizontally

try this :

from kivy.app import App

class LernApp(App):

# lern.kv


return BoxLayout("""


        orientation: "horizontal"


        Button:

            text: "Button1"

        Button:

            text: "Button2"

"""

if __name__ == "__main__":
    LernApp().run()

Or try this

from kivy.app import App

class LernApp(App):

 # lern.kv
 return BoxLayout("""
        orientation: "horizontal"

        Button:

            text: "Button1"

        Button:

            text: "Button2"

"""

if __name__ == "__main__":
    LernApp().run()

Upvotes: 0

Yoav Glazner
Yoav Glazner

Reputation: 8066

The widgets are stacked vertically. So the meaning of orientation is how to stack widgets inside the BoxLayout.

Upvotes: 4

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