For my first real project I'm using Tkinter to create a UI where, when a button is pressed, something happens.
I've created the UI which works well - buttons are made and are clickable, but I want each button to have it's own unique function - this is where I get lost.
I've got a nested dictionary:
siteDict = {1: {'app1': 'explorer', 'app2': 'firefox', 'app3': 'google-chrome', 'app4': 'edge'},
2: {'site1': 'http://www.google.com', 'site2': 'http://www.yahoo.com', 'site3': 'http://altavista', 'site4': 'http://www.askjeeves.com', }}
And I want to pass entries from the dictionary to terminal instead of having to manually define each one like I am now:
def Expl_Goog():
os.system('echo Opening Explorer and navigating to Google (http://www.google.com). Please wait.')
So instead of doing echo Opening Explorer and navigating to Google (http://www.google.com). Please wait. is there a way to pass 2 items from my dictionary into the terminal command? {app1} and {site1} in this example.
Defining variables for ~12 things isn't terrible, but the real side of the project has the same type of dictionary but with 64 entries in each one.
Here's the code I have so far, which is functional. The button click functionality is done via the "command" argument within the button creation - ttk.Button(self.Explorer_labelFrame, text="google", command=Expl_Goog).grid(column=0, row=0, pady=2, sticky=tk.EW)
Built on 3.9.5
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk
import os
# Dictionary to house variables
siteDict = {1: {'app1': 'explorer', 'app2': 'firefox', 'app3': 'google-chrome', 'app4': 'edge'},
2: {'site1': 'http://www.google.com', 'site2': 'http://www.yahoo.com', 'site3': 'http://altavista', 'site4': 'http://www.askjeeves.com', }}
# Defining the action for the Tkinter button press to do
def Expl_Goog():
os.system('echo Opening Explorer and navigating to Google (http://www.google.com). Please wait.')
# Another definition - Explorer and Yahoo
def Expl_Yah():
os.system('echo Opening Explorer and navigating to Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com). Please wait.')
def Fire_Goog():
os.system('echo Opening Firefox and navigating to Google (http://www.google.com). Please wait.')
def Fire_Yah():
os.system('echo Opening Firefox and navigating to Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com). Please wait.')
# Build UI via Tkinter
class App(tk.Tk):
def __init__(self):
super(App, self).__init__()
self.title("Website Launcher")
self.minsize(200, 400)
#self.wm_iconbitmap('icon.ico')
self.lift()
self.attributes('-topmost', True)
self.update()
self.Explorer_labelFrame = ttk.LabelFrame(self, text="Explorer", labelanchor='n')
self.Explorer_labelFrame.grid(column=0, row=7, padx=20, pady=40)
self.Firefox_labelFrame = ttk.LabelFrame(self, text="Firefox", labelanchor='n')
self.Firefox_labelFrame.grid(column=2, row=7, padx=20, pady=40)
self.labels_Explorer()
self.labels_Firefox()
# Creating UI Buttons
# "command" argument makes clicking the button run the terminal command defined above
def labels_Explorer(self):
ttk.Button(self.Explorer_labelFrame, text="google", command=Expl_Goog).grid(column=0, row=0, pady=2, sticky=tk.EW)
ttk.Button(self.Explorer_labelFrame, text="yahoo", command=Expl_Yah).grid(column=0, row=1, pady=2, sticky=tk.EW)
ttk.Button(self.Explorer_labelFrame, text="altavista").grid(column=0, row=2, pady=2, sticky=tk.EW)
ttk.Button(self.Explorer_labelFrame, text="askjeeves").grid(column=0, row=3, pady=2, sticky=tk.EW)
def labels_Firefox(self):
ttk.Button(self.Firefox_labelFrame, text="google", command=Fire_Goog).grid(column=0, row=0, pady=2, sticky=tk.EW)
ttk.Button(self.Firefox_labelFrame, text="yahoo", command=Fire_Yah).grid(column=0, row=1, pady=2, sticky=tk.EW)
ttk.Button(self.Firefox_labelFrame, text="altavista").grid(column=0, row=2, pady=2, sticky=tk.EW)
ttk.Button(self.Firefox_labelFrame, text="askjeeves").grid(column=0, row=3, pady=2, sticky=tk.EW)
app = App()
app.mainloop()
