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Testnominiee
Testnominiee

Reputation: 61

Creating a new window in tkinter that has the same widgets from the root window

I am wanting to create a tkinter window where when I click a button widget it opens a new window, showing all the widgets, exactly the same, from the root/original window. Essentially creating a second instance of the root window, where the application can have multiple users, using the same GUI, in different windows.

Any help is appreciated.

An example of one of my widgets:

    summary_output = Text(
                    master=window, 
                    height=8,
                    width=78,
                    bg="gray95",
                    borderwidth=2, 
                    relief="groove",
                    font=("Arial", 12))

My window layout

    window = Tk()
    window.title("Data Viewer")
    window.geometry("750x950")
    window.configure(bg='white')
    window.iconphoto(False, tk.PhotoImage(file='icon.png'))

I have this but cant seem to place the widgets from the root window:


    def new_window():
        newWindow = Toplevel(window)
        newWindow.geometry("750x950")
        newWindow.configure(bg='white')
        newWindow.iconphoto(False, tk.PhotoImage(file='icon.png'))
        upload_button.place(x=20, y=560)
        mainloop()

Is their anyway to change the master to be any window?

Edit:

from tkinter import *

class StaticFrame(Frame):
    def __init__(self,master,*args,**kwargs):
        Frame.__init__(self,master,*args,**kwargs)

        # All your widgets
        Label(self,text='This is a reusable frame',font=(0,17)).place(x=0, y=0)
        Button(self,text='Click me for nothing').pack()
        Label(self,text='End of page').pack()
        upload_button = Button(
                self, 
                text="Edit Data",
                fg="DodgerBlue4",
                font=("Graph Type", 15),
                height=1, width=12,
                borderwidth=2,
                relief="groove")
        upload_button.place(x=20, y=50)

root = Tk() # First window
top  = Toplevel(root) # Second window
root.geometry("750x968")
StaticFrame(root).pack() # Put the frame on the first window
StaticFrame(top).pack() # Put the frame on the second window

root.mainloop()

Result:

enter image description here

Upvotes: -1

Views: 960

Answers (1)

Delrius Euphoria
Delrius Euphoria

Reputation: 15098

The concept used here is simple, create a "custom frame" that we will put onto these new windows, so that it will create the exact same frame, and widgets within it, inside different windows.

from tkinter import *

class StaticFrame(Frame):
    def __init__(self,master,*args,**kwargs):
        Frame.__init__(self,master,*args,**kwargs)

        # All your widgets
        Label(self,text='This is a reusable frame',font=(0,17)).pack()
        Button(self,text='Click me for nothing').pack()
        Label(self,text='End of page').pack()

root = Tk() # First window
top  = Toplevel(root) # Second window

StaticFrame(root).pack() # Put the frame on the first window
StaticFrame(top).pack() # Put the frame on the second window

root.mainloop()

Very simple to code and has been explained with comments, if you do not know what classes and inheritance is then first do go through those. There are variety of other methods that come onto mind when I read this question, like even having an option database and storing the widgets in a list and recreating it based on its order, but this seems to be the easiest in a scratch.

Upvotes: 2

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