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Thevin Jayawardena
Thevin Jayawardena

Reputation: 49

Move buttons to East with grid method

So a little stylistic thing I want to do is move some buttons to the east side of the window while having them all on the same row.

Sounds easy enough and the grid method has a sticky parameter that should make this easy to do, right? No.

This is the basic code

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()
window.geometry("200x200")

btn1 = Button(window, text="btn1")
btn1.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky="E")
btn2 = Button(window, text="btn2")
btn2.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky="E")

window.mainloop()

What I want is:

-------------------------
|         ------ ------ |
|         |btn1| |btn2| |
|         ------ ------ |
-------------------------

What I'm getting is:

-------------------------
| ------ ------         |
| |btn1| |btn2|         |
| ------ ------         |
-------------------------

Which is sticking to the West even though I specified East

What am I doing wrong? How can I get the result I want?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 38

Answers (1)

Tirsvad
Tirsvad

Reputation: 158

Give column 0 some weigth. It will force column 1 and 2 to right.

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()
window.geometry("200x200")
window.columnconfigure(0, weight=3)
btn1 = Button(window, text="btn1")
btn1.grid(row=0, column=1)
btn2 = Button(window, text="btn2")
btn2.grid(row=0, column=2)

window.mainloop()

Another way to do this is using pack() and Frame()

from tkinter import *
window = Tk()
window.geometry("200x200")
cbframe = Frame(window)
btn1 = Button(cbframe, text="btn1")
btn1.pack(side="right", fill=None, expand=False)
btn2 = Button(cbframe, text="btn2")
btn2.pack(side="right", fill=None, expand=False)

cbframe.pack(side="top", fill="both", expand=False)
window.mainloop()

Upvotes: 2

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