Python | PanedWindow Widget in Tkinter (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 7 Jun, 2019

Tkinter supports a variety of widgets to make GUI more and more attractive and functional. The PanedWindow widget is a geometry manager widget, which can contain one or more child widgets panes. The child widgets can be resized by the user, by moving separator lines sashes using the mouse.

Syntax: PanedWindow(master, **options)Parameters: master: parent widget or main Tk() objectoptions: which are passed in config method or directly in the constructor

PanedWindow can be used to implement common 2-panes or 3-panes but multiple panes can be used.**Code #1:**PanedWindow with only two panes

Python3 1== `

Importing everything from tkinter module

from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk

main tkinter window

root = Tk()

panedwindow object

pw = PanedWindow(orient ='vertical')

Button widget

top = ttk.Button(pw, text ="Click Me !\nI'm a Button") top.pack(side = TOP)

This will add button widget to the panedwindow

pw.add(top)

Checkbutton Widget

bot = Checkbutton(pw, text ="Choose Me !") bot.pack(side = TOP)

This will add Checkbutton to panedwindow

pw.add(bot)

expand is used so that widgets can expand

fill is used to let widgets adjust itself

according to the size of main window

pw.pack(fill = BOTH, expand = True)

This method is used to show sash

pw.configure(sashrelief = RAISED)

Infinite loop can be destroyed by

keyboard or mouse interrupt

mainloop()

`

Output: Code #2: PanedWindow with multiple panes

Python3 1== `

Importing everything from tkinter module

from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk

main tkinter window

root = Tk()

panedwindow object

pw = PanedWindow(orient ='vertical')

Button widget

top = ttk.Button(pw, text ="Click Me !\nI'm a Button") top.pack(side = TOP)

This will add button widget to the panedwindow

pw.add(top)

Checkbutton Widget

bot = Checkbutton(pw, text ="Choose Me !") bot.pack(side = TOP)

This will add Checkbutton to panedwindow

pw.add(bot)

adding Label widget

label = Label(pw, text ="I'm a Label") label.pack(side = TOP)

pw.add(label)

Tkinter string variable

string = StringVar()

Entry widget with some styling in fonts

entry = Entry(pw, textvariable = string, font =('arial', 15, 'bold')) entry.pack()

Focus force is used to focus on particular

widget that means widget is already selected for operations

entry.focus_force()

pw.add(entry)

expand is used so that widgets can expand

fill is used to let widgets adjust itself

according to the size of main window

pw.pack(fill = BOTH, expand = True)

This method is used to show sash

pw.configure(sashrelief = RAISED)

Infinite loop can be destroyed by

keyboard or mouse interrupt

mainloop()

`

Output: