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A frame is basically just a container for other widgets.
Your application's root window is basically a frame.
Each frame has its own grid layout, so the gridding of widgets within each frame works independently.
Frame widgets are a valuable tool in making your
application modular. You can group a set of related
widgets into a compound widget by putting them into a
frame. Better yet, you can declare a new class that
inherits from Frame
, adding your own
interface to it. This is a good way to hide the
details of interactions within a group of related
widgets from the outside world.
To create a new frame widget in a root window or frame
named
:
parent
w
= Frame(parent
,option
, ...)
The constructor returns the new Frame
widget. Options:
Table 19. Frame
widget options
bg or
background | The frame's background color. See Section 5.3, “Colors”. |
bd or
borderwidth | Width of the frame's border. The default is 0 (no border). For permitted values, see Section 5.1, “Dimensions”. |
cursor | The cursor used when the mouse is within the frame widget; see Section 5.8, “Cursors”. |
height |
The vertical dimension of the new
frame. This will be ignored unless you also call
.grid_propagate(0) on the frame; see
Section 4.2, “Other grid management methods”.
|
highlightbackground | Color of the focus highlight when the frame does not have focus. See Section 53, “Focus: routing keyboard input”. |
highlightcolor | Color shown in the focus highlight when the frame has the focus. |
highlightthickness | Thickness of the focus highlight. |
padx
|
Normally, a Frame fits tightly
around its contents. To add pixels of horizontal
space inside the frame, set padx= .
|
pady
|
Used to add vertical space inside a frame.
See padx above.
|
relief |
The default relief for a frame is tk.FLAT , which means the frame will blend in with its
surroundings. To put a border around a frame, set
its borderwidth to a positive value
and set its relief to one of the standard relief
types; see Section 5.6, “Relief styles”.
|
takefocus |
Normally, frame widgets are not visited by input
focus (see Section 53, “Focus: routing keyboard input” for an overview
of this topic). However, you can set takefocus=1 if you want the frame to
receive keyboard input. To handle such input, you
will need to create bindings for keyboard events;
see Section 54, “Events” for more on events and
bindings.
|
width |
The horizontal dimension of the new frame. See
Section 5.1, “Dimensions”. This value be
ignored unless you also call .grid_propagate(0) on the frame; see Section 4.2, “Other grid management methods”.
|