Thanks! That was just what I was looking for. --- On Thu, 1/27/11, Wayne Werner <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Wayne Werner <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Tutor] tkinter, create widgets during runtime? To: "Elwin Estle" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 10:54 AM On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Elwin Estle <[email protected]> wrote: With Tcl/Tk, you can generate widgets "on the fly" during program execution, without having to explicitly create them in your code. i.e., something like: for {set i 0} {$i <= 5} {incr i} { label .myLabel_$i -text "this is label myLabel_$i" pack .myLabel_$i } for x in xrange(5): Label(root, text="This is label %d" %x).pack() will generate the labels. You can't put the variable names in the local namespace without some tricksy methods. You could, however, have a dict labels and just do labels[x] = Label(root, text="blah")labels[x].pack() HTH,Wayne
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