How to create a scrollable list of buttons in Tkinter?

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The code I have now will only print the buttons, it will not create a scroll bar. I want it to print the buttons and allow me to scroll through them. The best I could do is create the scroll bar, but not get it to attach to anything? I'm new to python GUI's so I'm not too familiar with this stuff. This is my code:

def remove1():
        newWindow1 = tk.Toplevel(root)
        newWindow1.title("Remove Suppliers")
        newWindow1.canvas = tk.Canvas()
        newWindow1.canvas.pack()
        sb = tk.Scrollbar(newWindow1.canvas)
        sb.pack()
        newWindow1.canvas.config(yscrollcommand=sb.set)
        sb.config(command = newWindow1.canvas.yview)
        newWindow1.canvas.configure(scrollregion=newWindow1.canvas.bbox("all"))
        newWindow1.canvas.button = []
        i = 0
        for keys in supplier_dict:
            newWindow1.canvas.button.append(tk.Button(newWindow1, text=keys,command = lambda i=i: self.open_this(i)))
            newWindow1.canvas.button[i].pack(side = "top", fill = "both")
            i+=1
        z = 1

        edit_suppliers(supplier_dict)

Look at [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/66215091/11106801). The problem with your code is that you aren't creating the buttons inside the canvas and you are calling `.pack` instead of using `.create_window` — TheLizzard, Jul 07 '21 at 14:43

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 07 '21 at 16:29

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Frames cannot scroll. The most common solution is to add the frame to a canvas and then attach the scrollbar to the canvas. However, a simpler solution is to put them in a text widget if your goal is a single column of widgets.

You need to create the buttons as children of the text widget, use window_create to add each button to the end, and then insert a newline to end the line.

It looks something like this:

text = tk.Text(root)
text.pack(side="left")
sb = tk.Scrollbar(root, command=text.yview)
sb.pack(side="right")
text.configure(yscrollcommand=sb.set)
...
for i in range(10):
    button = tk.Button(text, ...)
    text.window_create("end", window=button)
    text.insert("end", "\n")
text.configure(state="disabled")

edited Jul 07 '21 at 16:29

TheLizzard

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answered Jul 07 '21 at 15:03

Bryan Oakley

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Im having some trouble creating the buttons themselves now, I do not get any syntax error but no buttons are appearing when I use this: for keys in supplier_dict: button = tk.Button(text, text = keys) text.window_create("end", window=button) text.insert("end", "\n") text.configure(state="disabled") – autoreportproj Jul 07 '21 at 15:23
Need to call `text.pack(...)` or `text.grid(...)`. – acw1668 Jul 07 '21 at 15:26

How to create a scrollable list of buttons in Tkinter?

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