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Shraneid
Shraneid

Reputation: 408

Tkinter : I don't understand how the grid works (trying to create equally sized columns)

My goal is to create 3 equally sized columns in tkinter and then be able to fill them with whatever I want. What I'm trying to do is similar to the grid system in bootstrap but in tkinter adding something in a column makes the column bigger.

My question is then, how can you create fix sized columns ?

Thanks !

the code that creates columns that are not equal :

class MainPage(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent, controller):
        tk.Frame.__init__(self, parent, background = "black")

        self.columnconfigure(0, weight = 1)
        self.columnconfigure(1, weight = 1)
        self.columnconfigure(2, weight = 1)
        self.rowconfigure(0, weight = 1)
        self.rowconfigure(1, weight = 1)

        label = tk.Label(self, text = "Weather", fg = "white", bg="green", font = LARGE_FONT)
        label.grid(row = 0, column = 0, padx = 0, pady = 0, sticky = 'new')

        label = tk.Label(self, text = "Time", fg = "white", bg="blue", font = LARGE_FONT)
        label.grid(row = 0, column = 1, pady = 0, sticky = 'nwe')

        label = tk.Label(self, text = "Test", fg = "white", bg="red", font = LARGE_FONT)
        label.grid(row = 0, column = 2, pady = 0, sticky = 'nwe')

        label2 = tk.Label(self, text = "News", fg = "white", bg="black", font = LARGE_FONT)
        label2.grid(row = 1, column = 0, padx = 0, pady = 10, sticky = 'sw')

Upvotes: 0

Views: 664

Answers (1)

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 386342

grid has an option specifically for equally sized columns and rows: uniform. It takes any string as a value, and all columns with the same value will be the same size.

In your case it would look like this:

self.columnconfigure(0, weight = 1, uniform="x")
self.columnconfigure(1, weight = 1, uniform="x")
self.columnconfigure(2, weight = 1, uniform="x")

Upvotes: 2

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