[Tutor] Wizards in Tkinter
Alan G
alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Wed May 25 00:28:49 CEST 2005
Your mail came as an attachment so no quoted text, but basically
there are two approaches to your problem of a Wizard.
In Tkinter you normally use a Frame as your main window.
You can pack another Frame inside that frame with your content.
When you press next simply unpack frame 1 and pack frame 2.
Repeat for as many frames as your Wizard requires. (This
makes going back easy too...)
A second approach is to use TopLevel widgets which are
normally used for modeless dialog boxes. These effctively
have their own mainloop running in parallel wit the main
window but in a controlled way. But creating lors of
TopLevel "dialogs" is IMHO resource hungry and harder
work than using multiple frames.
The Frame approach also has the advantage that you can,
to a degree data drive the wizard by putting references
to the Frames in a dictionary or list and stepping through
the sequence. That way you can easily change the sequence,
reuse frames over again within the same wizard etc etc.
Hope that made sense,
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web tutor
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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