How to delete Tkinter widgets from a window

Question

I have a list of tkinter widgets that I want to change dynamically    How to delete the widgets from the window

User · Answer

I found that when the widget is part of a function and the grid_remove is part of another function it does not remove the label. In this example...

def somefunction(self):
    Label(self, text=" ").grid(row = 0, column = 0)
    self.text_ent = Entry(self)
    self.text_ent.grid(row = 1, column = 0)
def someotherfunction(self):
    somefunction.text_ent.grid_remove()

...there is no valid way of removing the Label.

The only solution I could find is to give the label a name and make it global:

def somefunction(self):
    global label
    label = Label(self, text=" ")
    label.grid(row = 0, column = 0)
    self.text_ent = Entry(self)
    self.text_ent.grid(row = 1, column = 0)
def someotherfunction(self):
    global label
    somefunction.text_ent.grid_remove()
    label.grid_remove()

When I ran into this problem there was a class involved, one function being in the class and one not, so I'm not sure the global label lines are really needed in the above.

User · Answer

You say that you have a list of widgets to change dynamically  Do you want to reuse and reconfigure existing widgets  or create all new widgets and delete the old ones  It affects the answer   If you want to reuse the existing widgets  just reconfigure them  Or  if you just want to hide some of them temporarily  use the corresponding  forget  method to hide them  If you mapped them with pack   calls  you would hide with pack forget    or just forget    calls  Accordingly  grid forget   to hide gridded widgets  and place forget   for placed widgets   If you do not intend to reuse the widgets  you can destroy them with a straight destroy   call  like widget destroy    to free up resources

User · Answer

You can use forget method on the widget   from tkinter import    root   Tk    b   Button root  text  Delete me   command b forget  b pack    b  command     b forget  root mainloop

User · Answer

Today I learn some simple and good click event handling using tkinter gui library in python3  which I would like to share inside this thread   from tkinter import    cnt   0   def MsgClick event       children   root winfo children       for child in children            print  type of widget is       str type child            if str type child        lt class  tkinter Message  gt                  print  Here Message widget will destroy               child destroy               return  def MsgMotion event     print  Mouse position    s  s      event x  event y     return   def ButtonClick event       global cnt  msg     cnt    1     msg   Message root  text  you just clicked the button       str cnt        time          msg config bg  lightgreen   font   times   24   italic        msg bind   lt Button-1 gt    MsgClick      msg bind   lt Motion gt    MsgMotion      msg pack        print type msg   tkinter Message   def ButtonDoubleClick event       import sys  sys exit     root   Tk    root title  My First GUI App in Python   root minsize width 300  height 300  root maxsize width 400  height 350  button   Button      root  text  Click Me    width 40  height 3   button pack   button bind   lt Button-1 gt    ButtonClick  button bind   lt Double-1 gt    ButtonDoubleClick   root mainloop     Hope it will help someone

User · Answer

You can call pack forget to remove a widget  if you use pack to add it to the window    Example   from tkinter import    root   Tk    b   Button root  text  Delete me   command lambda  b pack forget    b pack    root mainloop     If you use pack forget  you can later show the widget again calling pack again  If you want to permanently delete it  call destroy on the widget  then you won t be able to re-add it    If you use the grid method  you can use grid forget or grid remove to hide the widget

User · Answer

One way you can do it  is to get the slaves list from the frame that needs to be cleared and destroy or  hide  them according to your needs  To get a clear frame you can do it like this   from tkinter import    root   Tk    def clear        list   root grid slaves       for l in list          l destroy    Label root text  Hello World    grid row 0  Button root text  Clear  command clear  grid row 1   root mainloop     You should call grid slaves    pack slaves   or slaves   depending on the method you used to add the widget to the frame

User · Answer

You simply use the destroy   method to delete the specified widgets like this   lbl   tk Label        btn   tk Button        command lambda  lbl destroy      Using this you can completely destroy the specific widgets

User · Answer

clear btm Button master text  quot Clear quot    this button will delete the widgets  clear btm  quot command quot     lambda one   button1  two   text1  three   entry1  clear one two three   pass the widgets clear btm pack    def clear  widgets       for widget in widgets          widget destroy    finally we are deleting the widgets

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