Ok i got this figured out. It's important to create the canvas in a class
that is subclassed from Frame.
kimmyaf wrote:
>
> I cannot get my canvas to show within my existing frame. I can only get
> it to build it's own frame. Can someone help? As you can see i've tried a
> number of different things so i have a lot of stuff commented out at the
> bottom. attached is a picture of what my GUI looks like. I want the canvas
> to show in the same frame as the address entries not seperately. Any help
> is appreciated. I see a lot of examples on the web but they are all
> building the canvas in their own frame. I need it in the other frame.
>
>
> class App:
> def __init__(self, master):
>
> self.master = master # store link to master window (or:
> self.frame._root())
> self.frame = Frame(master) # make a frame with master as parent
> self.frame.grid(row=0, column=0) # initiate drawing of frame in
> master window
>
> # make a label
> self.label = Label(self.frame, text="Massachusetts Bay Transit
> Authority - Bus Locator", justify=LEFT,
> font= ("Helvetica","16", "bold"))
> self.label.grid(row=0, column=0, columnspan=4)
> print self.label.cget("font") # what's my font?
>
> # make another label
> self.label = Label(self.frame, text="Enter your current location",
> justify=LEFT,
> font= ("Helvetica","12"))
> self.label.grid(row=1, column=0)
> print self.label.cget("font") # what's my font?
>
>
> #######################################TEXT FIELDS##############
> # make address text entry field
> self.entry_addr = StringVar()
> self.entry = Entry(self.frame, width=25,
> textvariable=self.entry_addr)
> self.entry_addr.set("Address line 1")
>
> self.entry.grid(row=1, column=1)
>
>
> # make City text entry field
> self.entry_city = StringVar()
> self.entry = Entry(self.frame, width=25,
> textvariable=self.entry_city)
> self.entry_city.set("City")
>
> self.entry.grid(row=2, column=1)
>
>
>
> # make State text entry field
> self.entry_state = StringVar()
> self.entry = Entry(self.frame, width=11,
> textvariable=self.entry_state)
> self.entry_state.set("State Abvtn")
>
> self.entry.grid(row=3, column=1)
>
>
>
> # make Zip text entry field
> self.entry_zip = StringVar()
> self.entry = Entry(self.frame, width=5,
> textvariable=self.entry_zip)
> self.entry_zip.set("zip")
>
> self.entry.grid(row=4, column=1)
>
>
>
> ###################################CANVAS#######################
> # Tkinter cannot use a PIL Image directly, but we can make a
> PhotoImage from it
> #img = Image.open("Imgfolder\map.jpg")
>
> #define a new frame and put a text area in it
> #self.imgframe=Frame(self.frame)
> #self.text=Text(self.textframe,height=30, width=50,wrap=WORD)
> #self.text.pack(side=LEFT, fill=BOTH)
>
> #tkinter_phimg = ImageTk.PhotoImage(i) # can do only after Tk()!
> self.imgframe = Tkinter.Tk()
> self.canvas = Tkinter.Canvas(self.imgframe, width=50, height=50)
> #canvas.pack()
>
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p28323328/frames.jpg
>
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