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James
James

Reputation: 327

Asking for user input without input() python 3

for my program i am using tkinter for the GUI. Before the program starts i want to have to input a password. I used the input() function. When running my code in my jupyter notebook everything works fine. So i created and executable file with pyinstaller, but when double clicking it won´t start and ask for the input. Since i often used pyinstaller i don´t think i failed in creating the exe-file, so my guess is, that the problem lies within the input() function. Is there another way to ask for user input?

I tried creating a window with an entry widget via Toplevel but i am not quite sure how to implement it since i want to start the program AFTER i entered the password.

My relevant code:

if __name__=='__main__':
    root = tkinter.Tk()
    asd = input("Enter the password:")
    if asd == str(12345):
        app = GUI(master=root)
        app.master.title("Programm Links")
        app.master.minsize(600,400)
        root.config(menu=app.menubar)
        app.center(root)
        app.mainloop()
    else:
        root.destroy()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 574

Answers (1)

James
James

Reputation: 327

So with help of the comments on my question i got an answer:

import tkinter
from tkinter import messagebox
from tkinter import simpledialog

if __name__=='__main__':
    root = tkinter.Tk()
    root.withdraw()
    asd = tkinter.simpledialog.askstring("Password","Enter the password:")
    if asd == str(12345):
        app = GUI(master=root)
        app.master.title("Programm Links")
        app.master.minsize(600,400)
        root.config(menu=app.menubar)
        app.center(root)
        app.mainloop()
    else:
        messagebox.showwarning("WRONG PASSWORD","You entered a wrong password")
        root.destroy()

This creates a dialogbox that asks for a user input. root.withdraw() hides the root window frame that gets created by root = tkinter.Tk() which is needed for the dialogbox to run.

Upvotes: 2

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