I've been working on python recently and wanted to make a program using tkinter to form a very basic GUI for a tic-tac-toe game. When I was assigning the command property of a button to a function that would then change the text of the button (ie from the button saying 'Top Right' to saying 'x' because a player took the space). When I run the program however, the command is instantly ran and I cannot find a reason for it to.
Why is the program running this function on launch and is there a better way to write this so it doesn't end up doing the same thing?
from tkinter import *
class Application(Frame):
def __init__(self, master= None):
Frame.__init__(self, master)
self.grid()
self.create_widgets()
def create_widgets(self):
self.TopL = Button(self, text='Top Left')
self.TopL['command'] = self.test(self.TopL)
self.TopC = Button(self, text='Top Center')
self.TopR = Button(self, text='Top Right')
self.MidL = Button(self, text='Middle Left')
self.MidC = Button(self, text='Middle Center')
self.MidR = Button(self, text='Middle Right')
self.BotL = Button(self, text='Bottom Left')
self.BotC = Button(self, text='Bottom Center')
self.BotR = Button(self, text='Bottom Right')
self.TopL.grid(column=0, row=1)
self.TopC.grid(column=1, row=1)
self.TopR.grid(column=2, row=1)
self.MidL.grid(column=0, row=2)
self.MidC.grid(column=1, row=2)
self.MidR.grid(column=2, row=2)
self.BotL.grid(column=0, row=3)
self.BotC.grid(column=1, row=3)
self.BotR.grid(column=2, row=3)
self.QUIT = Button(self, text='QUIT')
self.QUIT['command'] = self.quit()
self.QUIT.grid(row=0)
def test(self, button):
button['text'] = 'x'
def update(self, button, player_letter):
pass
app = Application()
app.master.title('Tic Tac Toe')
app.mainloop()
