Tkinter Layout Helpers

A library which is intended to simplify a placement of widgets with .grid() and .pack() methods:

• avoid manual calculation of indices of columns and rows when you add a widget;
• avoid typing-in some common parameters (like sticky=tk.EW) each time you add a widget;
• and more...

Work in progress.

As an example, this code:

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter_layout_helpers.grid_helper import grid_manager

root = tk.Tk()

with grid_manager(root, sticky=tk.EW) as grid:
    with grid.new_row() as row:
        row.add(tk.Label(text="0", width=20))
        row.add(tk.Label(text="1", width=20))
        row.add(tk.Label(text="2", width=20))
        row.add(tk.Label(text="3", width=20))
        row.add(tk.Label(text="4", width=20))

    with grid.new_row() as row:
        row.add(tk.Entry()).set_column_span(4)
        row.add(tk.Entry()).set_column_span(1)
    
    with grid.new_row() as row:
        row.add(tk.Entry()).set_column_span(3)
        row.add(tk.Entry()).set_column_span(2)
    
    with grid.new_row() as row:
        row.add(tk.Entry()).set_column_span(2)
        row.add(tk.Entry()).set_column_span(3)

    with grid.new_row() as row:
        row.add(tk.Entry()).set_column_span(1)
        row.add(tk.Entry()).set_column_span(4)

    for column in grid.columns:
        column.configure(weight=1)

root.mainloop()

Gives the following result:

Example for the pack_manager:

import tkinter as tk

from tkinter_layout_helpers import pack_manager

root = tk.Tk()

with pack_manager(root, fill=tk.BOTH) as packer:
    packer.pack_left(tk.Label(text="Left bar", relief=tk.RAISED))
    packer.pack_top(tk.Label(text="Top bar", relief=tk.RAISED))
    packer.pack_bottom(tk.Label(text="Bottom bar", relief=tk.RAISED))
    packer.pack_right(tk.Label(text="Right bar", relief=tk.RAISED))
    packer.pack_expanded(tk.Text())

root.mainloop()

Result:

More examples see here: examples