Tkinter how to access the widget by name

[Prasad, Ramit]

???????? ????? wrote:
> I'm a little teapot ... himself the question: if I want to appeal to the widget, knowing his name... ?
> 
> # appropriated the name of the widget
> label = Label(frame, width = 40, text='text', name = 'name')
> ...
> name_='name'
> configure(name_)
> ...
> def configure(name_)
>         #And how can that be?
>         # At least let the text you want to change ....
> 
> I beg you ..!!!!
> --

I am unfamiliar with Tkinter, so this might not be very helpful.

Usually with the GUI I have created before I uses classes and store 
the widgets inside the classes. That makes it easier to use
`self.widgetname` or `getattr(self, widgetname)`. If that is not
something you can instead store the attributes in a list/dictionary.
In both cases make sure not to have multiple widgets created with
the same name.

Note the following is all untested and should be considered pseudo-code.

widgets = {}
label = Label(frame, width = 40, text='text', name = 'name')
widgets['name'] = label

def configure(name_):
    widget = widgets[name_] 

OR

widgets = []
label = Label(frame, width = 40, text='text', name = 'name')
widgets.append( label )

def configure(name_):
    found = False
    for w in widgets:
         if w.name == name_: # No idea how to get name from Tk widget
               found = True
               break
     if found:
        # configure here


Ramit Prasad


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