Tkinter is used to develop GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications. It supports a variety of widgets as well as a variety of widgets methods or universal widget methods.
grid_location() method –
This method returns a tuple containing (column, row) of any specified widget. Since this method is a widget method you cannot use it with master object ( or Tk() object). In order to use this method, you should first create a Frame and treat it as a parent (or master).
Syntax: widget.grid_location(x, y)
Parameters:
x and y are the positions, relative to the upper left corner of the widget (parent widget).
In below example, grid_location() is used to get the location of the widget in the Frame widget.
Python3
# This imports all functions in tkinter modulefrom tkinter import * from tkinter.ttk import *# creating master windowmaster = Tk()# This method is used to get the position# of the desired widget available in any# other widgetdef click(event): # Here retrieving the size of the parent # widget relative to master widget x = event.x_root - f.winfo_rootx() y = event.y_root - f.winfo_rooty() # Here grid_location() method is used to # retrieve the relative position on the # parent widget z = f.grid_location(x, y) # printing position print(z)# Frame widget, will work as# parent for buttons widgetf = Frame(master)f.pack()# Button widgetsb = Button(f, text = "Button")b.grid(row = 2, column = 3)c = Button(f, text = "Button2")c.grid(row = 1, column = 0)# Here binding click method with mousemaster.bind("<Button-1>", click)# infinite loopmainloop() |
grid_size() method –
This method is used to get the total number of grids present in any parent widget. This is a widget method so one cannot use it with master object. One has to create a Frame widget.
Syntax: (columns, rows) = widget.grid_size()
Return Value: It returns total numbers of columns and rows (grids).
Below is the Python code-
Python3
# This imports all functions in tkinter modulefrom tkinter import * from tkinter.ttk import *# creating master windowmaster = Tk()# This method is used to get the size# of the desired widget i.e number of grids# available in the widgetdef grids(event): # Here, grid_size() method is used to get # the total number grids available in frame # widget x = f.grid_size() # printing (columns, rows) print(x)# Frame widget, will work as# parent for buttons widgetf = Frame(master)f.pack()# Button widgetsb = Button(f, text = "Button")b.grid(row = 1, column = 2)c = Button(f, text = "Button2")c.grid(row = 1, column = 0)# Here binding click method with mousemaster.bind("<Button-1>", grids)# infinite loopmainloop() |
Output:
Every time you click the mouse button it will return the same value until more widgets are not added OR number of rows and columns are not increased.
(3, 2)
