Tkinter Application to Switch Between Different Page Frames
Prerequisites: Python GUI – tkinter
Sometimes it happens that we need to create an application with several pops up dialog boxes, i.e Page Frames. Here is a step by step process to create multiple Tkinter Page Frames and link them! This can be used as a boilerplate for more complex python GUI applications like creating interfaces for Virtual Laboratories for experiments, classrooms, etc.
Here are the steps:
- Create three different pages. Here we have three different pages, The start page as the home page, page one, and page two.
- Create a container for each page frame.
- We have four classes. First is the tkinterApp class, where we have initialized the three frames and defined a function show_frame which is called every time the user clicks on a button.
- The StartPage is simple with two buttons to go to Page 1 and Page 2.
- Page 1 has two buttons, One for Page 2 and another to return to Start Page.
- Page 2 also has two buttons, one for Page 1 and others to return to StartPage.
- This is a simplistic application of navigating between Tkinter frames.
- This can be used as a boilerplate for more complex applications and several features can be added.
The App starts with the StartPage as the first page, as shown in class tkinterApp. Here in StartApp, there are two buttons. Clicking on a button takes you to the respective Page. You can add images and graphs to these pages and add complex functionality. The pages have two buttons as well. Every time a button is pressed show_frame is called, which displays the respective Page.
Below is the implementation.
Python3
import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk LARGEFONT = ( "Verdana" , 35 ) class tkinterApp(tk.Tk): # __init__ function for class tkinterApp def __init__( self , * args, * * kwargs): # __init__ function for class Tk tk.Tk.__init__( self , * args, * * kwargs) # creating a container container = tk.Frame( self ) container.pack(side = "top" , fill = "both" , expand = True ) container.grid_rowconfigure( 0 , weight = 1 ) container.grid_columnconfigure( 0 , weight = 1 ) # initializing frames to an empty array self .frames = {} # iterating through a tuple consisting # of the different page layouts for F in (StartPage, Page1, Page2): frame = F(container, self ) # initializing frame of that object from # startpage, page1, page2 respectively with # for loop self .frames[F] = frame frame.grid(row = 0 , column = 0 , sticky = "nsew" ) self .show_frame(StartPage) # to display the current frame passed as # parameter def show_frame( self , cont): frame = self .frames[cont] frame.tkraise() # first window frame startpage class StartPage(tk.Frame): def __init__( self , parent, controller): tk.Frame.__init__( self , parent) # label of frame Layout 2 label = ttk.Label( self , text = "Startpage" , font = LARGEFONT) # putting the grid in its place by using # grid label.grid(row = 0 , column = 4 , padx = 10 , pady = 10 ) button1 = ttk.Button( self , text = "Page 1" , command = lambda : controller.show_frame(Page1)) # putting the button in its place by # using grid button1.grid(row = 1 , column = 1 , padx = 10 , pady = 10 ) ## button to show frame 2 with text layout2 button2 = ttk.Button( self , text = "Page 2" , command = lambda : controller.show_frame(Page2)) # putting the button in its place by # using grid button2.grid(row = 2 , column = 1 , padx = 10 , pady = 10 ) # second window frame page1 class Page1(tk.Frame): def __init__( self , parent, controller): tk.Frame.__init__( self , parent) label = ttk.Label( self , text = "Page 1" , font = LARGEFONT) label.grid(row = 0 , column = 4 , padx = 10 , pady = 10 ) # button to show frame 2 with text # layout2 button1 = ttk.Button( self , text = "StartPage" , command = lambda : controller.show_frame(StartPage)) # putting the button in its place # by using grid button1.grid(row = 1 , column = 1 , padx = 10 , pady = 10 ) # button to show frame 2 with text # layout2 button2 = ttk.Button( self , text = "Page 2" , command = lambda : controller.show_frame(Page2)) # putting the button in its place by # using grid button2.grid(row = 2 , column = 1 , padx = 10 , pady = 10 ) # third window frame page2 class Page2(tk.Frame): def __init__( self , parent, controller): tk.Frame.__init__( self , parent) label = ttk.Label( self , text = "Page 2" , font = LARGEFONT) label.grid(row = 0 , column = 4 , padx = 10 , pady = 10 ) # button to show frame 2 with text # layout2 button1 = ttk.Button( self , text = "Page 1" , command = lambda : controller.show_frame(Page1)) # putting the button in its place by # using grid button1.grid(row = 1 , column = 1 , padx = 10 , pady = 10 ) # button to show frame 3 with text # layout3 button2 = ttk.Button( self , text = "Startpage" , command = lambda : controller.show_frame(StartPage)) # putting the button in its place by # using grid button2.grid(row = 2 , column = 1 , padx = 10 , pady = 10 ) # Driver Code app = tkinterApp() app.mainloop() |
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