Friday, July 20, 2012

Tkinter demos

The tkinter demos that ship with the Python 3 install are in the tcl\8.5\demo directory, however; they are all tcl files! And well there are a number of decent tkinter reference sites available: TkDocs, tkinterbookTkinter 8.4 Reference, and A Tour of Tkinter Widgets, it's hard to find recent, full working examples of various things tkinter so I've decided to take a crack at converting the tcl demos myself; mainly as a learning experience but hopefully they'll be useful to others as well.

To begin with, the demos each appear in a window with three panels: a top panel describing the demo, a middle panel with the widgets being demonstrated and a bottom button panel.  As the top and bottom panels are essentially the same across the board, I've split the code into a separate file: demopanels.py. 

Also included is a CodeDialog class for the display of the demo's source code. It creates a modal dialog window with a scrolled text widget and cancel button.


This file will be imported into subsequent demos.

# File: demopanels.py
# References:
#    http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/4e32c450f438/Lib/tkinter/simpledialog.py
#    http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/inspect.html#module-inspect
#
# Icons sourced from: 
#    http://findicons.com/icon/69404/deletered?width=16#
#    http://findicons.com/icon/93110/old_edit_find?width=16#


from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
from tkinter.simpledialog import Dialog
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
import inspect

class MsgPanel(ttk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master, msgtxt):
        ttk.Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.pack(side=TOP, fill=X)
        
        msg = Label(self, wraplength='4i', justify=LEFT)
        msg['text'] = ''.join(msgtxt)
        msg.pack(fill=X, padx=5, pady=5)
        
class SeeDismissPanel(ttk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master):
        ttk.Frame.__init__(self, master) 
        self.pack(side=BOTTOM, fill=X)          # resize with parent
        
        # separator widget
        sep = ttk.Separator(orient=HORIZONTAL)

        # Dismiss button
        im = Image.open('images//delete.png')   # image file
        imh = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im)            # handle to file
        dismissBtn = ttk.Button(text='Dismiss', image=imh, command=self.winfo_toplevel().destroy)
        dismissBtn.image = imh                  # prevent image from being garbage collected
        dismissBtn['compound'] = LEFT           # display image to left of label text
        
        # 'See Code' button
        im = Image.open('images//view.png')
        imh = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im)
        codeBtn = ttk.Button(text='See Code', image=imh, default=ACTIVE, command=lambda: CodeDialog(self.master))
        codeBtn.image = imh
        codeBtn['compound'] = LEFT
        codeBtn.focus()
                
        # position and register widgets as children of this frame
        sep.grid(in_=self, row=0, columnspan=4, sticky=EW, pady=5)
        codeBtn.grid(in_=self, row=1, column=0, sticky=E)
        dismissBtn.grid(in_=self, row=1, column=1, sticky=E)
        
        # set resize constraints
        self.rowconfigure(0, weight=1)
        self.columnconfigure(0, weight=1)

        # bind <Return> to demo window, activates 'See Code' button; 
        # <'Escape'> activates 'Dismiss' button
        self.winfo_toplevel().bind('<Return>', lambda x: codeBtn.invoke() )
        self.winfo_toplevel().bind('<Escape>', lambda x: dismissBtn.invoke() )

class CodeDialog(Dialog):
    """Create a modal dialog to display a demo's source code file. """
        
    def body(self, master):
        """Overrides Dialog.body() to populate the dialog window with a scrolled text window 
        and custom dialog buttons. """
        
        # get the full path of this object's parent source code file
        fileName = inspect.getsourcefile(self.parent._create_widgets)
        
        self.title('Source Code: ' + fileName)
        
        # create scrolled text widget
        txtFrame = ttk.Frame(self)
        txtFrame.pack(side=TOP, fill=BOTH)
        
        text = Text(txtFrame, height=24, width=100, wrap=WORD, setgrid=1, highlightthickness=0, pady=2, padx=3)
        xscroll = ttk.Scrollbar(txtFrame, command=text.xview, orient=HORIZONTAL)
        yscroll = ttk.Scrollbar(txtFrame, command=text.yview, orient=VERTICAL)
        text.configure(xscrollcommand=xscroll.set, yscrollcommand=yscroll.set)
        
        # position in frame and set resize constraints
        text.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky=NSEW)
        yscroll.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky=NSEW)
        txtFrame.rowconfigure(0, weight=1)
        txtFrame.columnconfigure(0, weight=1)
        
        # add text of file to scrolled text widget
        text.delete('0.0', END)
        text.insert(END, open(fileName).read())

    def buttonbox(self):
        """Overrides Dialog.buttonbox() to create custom buttons for this dialog. """
        
        box = ttk.Frame(self)

        # Cancel button
        cancelBtn = ttk.Button(box, text='Cancel', command=self.cancel)        
        cancelBtn.pack(side=RIGHT, padx=5, pady=5)
        self.bind('<Return>', self.cancel)
        self.bind('<Escape>', self.cancel)
        
        box.pack()