ScrollableContainers 1.0a0

Scrollable containers for some GUI toolkits

Scrollable containers which just work!

If you have developed GUI applications, you probably know the pain of designing a clean front-end only to find that your application window is too large for your client's screen. Making the content scrollable is not straightforward (at least in Tkinter). Especially not after you have already written a lot of code to draw the content.

You can use ScrollableContainers to reduce headaches. Run the following command to install the package.

pip install ScrollableContainers

ScrollableFrameTk

A full implementation of a scrollable frame in Tkinter.

• Handles resize events correctly.
• Horizontally centres the contents if the window is wider.
• Supports scrolling with the mouse wheel and touchpad.
  • Scrolling the mouse wheel or swiping vertically with two fingers on the touchpad triggers a vertical scroll.
  • Scrolling the mouse wheel while holding down Shift or swiping horizontally with two fingers on the touchpad triggers a horizontal scroll.

Usage

Add widgets to the frame attribute of a ScrollableFrameTk object. See examples.

Notes

'<Button-4>', '<Button-5>' and '<MouseWheel>' are bound to all widgets using bind_all to handle mouse wheel scroll events. Do not unbind_all (or bind_all another function to) these three sequences!

ScrollablePanelWx

A thin wrapper around wx.lib.scrolledpanel.ScrolledPanel.

• Does everything the aforementioned class does.
• Horizontally centres the contents if the window is wider.

Usage

Add widgets to the panel attribute of a ScrollablePanelWx object. See examples.