[issue44429] Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager

[Gary Davenport]

Gary Davenport  added the comment:

Just an update on this issue.  I did make 2 packages available on pypi.org:

https://pypi.org/project/flowframe/

and 

https://pypi.org/project/tkinterflow/

Thank you very much for your help.

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[issue44429] Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager

[Gary Davenport]

Gary Davenport  added the comment:

Thank you so much for the kind words and help in giving me some direction with 
these projects.  I am relatively new to Python, object oriented programming and 
open source collaboration.

I think the 3rd party module probably makes the most sense, because this is how 
I am currently using it.  The beginning of my code typically looks like this:

from tkinter import *
from tkinterFlow import *

But I will have to look at how to make or publish a module and so forth.  Then 
I would maintain the module with new releases.

I am also going to study Tk more.  I am fairly certain I can add the flow 
manager at that level.  Really the flow geometry manager as I have made isn't 
really a manager on its own.  It uses the grid managers methods.  (it could use 
the place instead of grid, but I chose grid).  

The main question I suppose would be does the community want a .flow method 
added to the Widgets in Tk or a 3rd party module?  I think I could make either 
one, given some time and study.

For now I will look into making the 3rd party module.  This is a skill I need 
to develop notwithstanding this flow manager project.

My main goal is just to make it easy for someone to implement flow behaviour.

Thanks again to everyone for your time and direction.

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[issue44429] Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager

[E. Paine]

E. Paine  added the comment:

> But we do not want to risk conflicting with Tk.
I think it's worth noting that tkinter does already have some 'extra' 
functionality over just what Tk offers (such as the ttk extension widgets 
`LabeledScale` and `OptionMenu`).


While this would (IMO) be a useful addition, it may be better suited as a 
third-party library.

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[issue44429] Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka  added the comment:

I concur with Zachary. If the flow geometry manager be added in Tk we will add 
its support in Tkinter. We can even add pure Python implementation for older Tk 
versions. But we do not want to risk conflicting with Tk.

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[issue44429] Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager

[Zachary Ware]

Zachary Ware  added the comment:

Hi Gary.

This sounds interesting.  However, Tkinter generally tries to be a pretty thin 
wrapper around Tcl/Tk; is there something like this already in Tk that could be 
used instead, or existing discussion to add such to Tk?  We certainly would not 
want to wind up in the situation of conflicting with Tcl/Tk if they later add 
something in the same vein :)

Also, the ship has long sailed for adding this to 3.9; 3.11 is the earliest 
this could happen at this point; I've adjusted the issue metadata accordingly.

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versions: +Python 3.11 -Python 3.9

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[issue44429] Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager

[Gary Davenport]

New submission from Gary Davenport :

Hi there.  I love Python and Tkinter.  I know that there are geometry managers 
pack, place, and grid.  I think there should be a flow type management 
available, like what is done in Java or html/css.  This is more important as 
responsive GUI design is needed with different screen sizes.

I initially addressed this by inheriting from the Frame in tkinter to a 
'FlowFrame' object and anything in that Frame would have flow geometry.

But this is a little awkward because the syntax is widget.pack() or 
widget.grid(), etc, so the method is linked to the widget.

So I altered the tkinter __init__.py  wrapper to add the .flow method so you 
can use widget.flow() syntax.

The flow geometry manager uses the grid managers methods.

The changes are straight-forward and I have 3 related projects on github:

1) https://github.com/garydavenport73/tkinterFlow - 
there are only 2 versions so history will demonstrate the relatively simple 
changes.

2) https://github.com/garydavenport73/FlowFrame -
a related project, FlowFrame object

3) https://github.com/garydavenport73/cpython
the formal changes to the most recent

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.9/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py file.

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title: Tkinter Flow Geometry Manager
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