[New-bugs-announce] [issue44429] Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager

[Gary Davenport]

New submission from Gary Davenport <garydavenport73 at gmail.com>:

Hi there.  I love Python and Tkinter.  I know that there are geometry managers pack, place, and grid.  I think there should be a flow type management available, like what is done in Java or html/css.  This is more important as responsive GUI design is needed with different screen sizes.

I initially addressed this by inheriting from the Frame in tkinter to a 'FlowFrame' object and anything in that Frame would have flow geometry.

But this is a little awkward because the syntax is widget.pack() or widget.grid(), etc, so the method is linked to the widget.

So I altered the tkinter __init__.py  wrapper to add the .flow method so you can use widget.flow() syntax.

The flow geometry manager uses the grid managers methods.

The changes are straight-forward and I have 3 related projects on github:

1) https://github.com/garydavenport73/tkinterFlow - 
there are only 2 versions so history will demonstrate the relatively simple changes.

2) https://github.com/garydavenport73/FlowFrame -
a related project, FlowFrame object

3) https://github.com/garydavenport73/cpython
the formal changes to the most recent

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.9/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py file.

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components: Tkinter
hgrepos: 405
messages: 395900
nosy: Gary73
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager
versions: Python 3.9

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