Tkinter supports a variety of widgets to make GUI more and more attractive and functional. The
PanedWindow widget is a geometry manager widget, which can contain one or more child widgets
panes. The child widgets can be resized by the user, by moving separator lines
sashes using the mouse.
Syntax: PanedWindow(master, **options)Parameters:master: parent widget or main Tk() objectoptions: which are passed in config method or directly in the constructor
PanedWindow can be used to implement common 2-panes or 3-panes but multiple panes can be used.
Code #1:PanedWindow with only two panes
Python3 1==# Importing everything from tkinter modulefromtkinterimport*fromtkinterimportttk# main tkinter windowroot=Tk()# panedwindow objectpw=PanedWindow(orient='vertical')# Button widgettop=ttk.Button(pw,text="Click Me !\nI'm a Button")top.pack(side=TOP)# This will add button widget to the panedwindowpw.add(top)# Checkbutton Widgetbot=Checkbutton(pw,text="Choose Me !")bot.pack(side=TOP)# This will add Checkbutton to panedwindowpw.add(bot)# expand is used so that widgets can expand# fill is used to let widgets adjust itself# according to the size of main windowpw.pack(fill=BOTH,expand=True)# This method is used to show sashpw.configure(sashrelief=RAISED)# Infinite loop can be destroyed by# keyboard or mouse interruptmainloop()
Code #2: PanedWindow with multiple panes
Python3 1==# Importing everything from tkinter modulefromtkinterimport*fromtkinterimportttk# main tkinter windowroot=Tk()# panedwindow objectpw=PanedWindow(orient='vertical')# Button widgettop=ttk.Button(pw,text="Click Me !\nI'm a Button")top.pack(side=TOP)# This will add button widget to the panedwindowpw.add(top)# Checkbutton Widgetbot=Checkbutton(pw,text="Choose Me !")bot.pack(side=TOP)# This will add Checkbutton to panedwindowpw.add(bot)# adding Label widgetlabel=Label(pw,text="I'm a Label")label.pack(side=TOP)pw.add(label)# Tkinter string variablestring=StringVar()# Entry widget with some styling in fontsentry=Entry(pw,textvariable=string,font=('arial',15,'bold'))entry.pack()# Focus force is used to focus on particular# widget that means widget is already selected for operationsentry.focus_force()pw.add(entry)# expand is used so that widgets can expand# fill is used to let widgets adjust itself# according to the size of main windowpw.pack(fill=BOTH,expand=True)# This method is used to show sashpw.configure(sashrelief=RAISED)# Infinite loop can be destroyed by# keyboard or mouse interruptmainloop()