I am building a app to print randomly generated data. I have a entry control that I would like to control the number of records that will be generated. Currently I have it working to get the int stored in the entry box but only the default value is being pulled.
It seems that Tkinter requires a value in the entry before it will start.
I am also having a problem which ever button is called last is being printed no matter what button the user has clicked
# file -> gui.py
# IMPORT tkinter for GUI creation and import scripts for functions
from tkinter import *
from tkinter.ttk import *
import scripts
# create main window
# window specs are 700 x 350 and window is not able to be resizeable
windowDim = str(700)+'x'+str(350)
window = Tk()
window.title("INFO GENERATOR")
window.geometry(windowDim)
window.resizable(False, False)
# CREATING USER CONTROLS
# each button will print a list of items (number of items will be come from the entry userValue)
userEntry = Entry(window)
#userValue = int(userValue)
userValue = 3
userEntry.place(x=450, y=200)
userEntry.insert(0, userValue)
updateButton = Button(window, text="UPDATE",
).place(x=475, y=225)
userValueLabel = Label(
window, text="ENTER AMOUNT OF RECORDS YOU WOULD LIKE").place(x=400, y=170)
label = Label(window, text="INFOMATION GENERATOR by Noah Mackay ",
background='#9999ff').pack()
def outputEmails(userValue):
# function receives the amount of records the user wants to print
# function will be called when email button is clicked
# this function will clear the output file and then read open it
# will call the generateEmail function from scripts.py file
# outputs the amount of records based on the user input in the entry text box
outputFile = scripts.generateEmail(userValue)
file = open('output.txt', 'w').close()
file = open('output.txt', 'w')
file.write(str(outputFile))
def outputNames(userValue):
# function receives the amount of records the user wants to print
# function will be called when email button is clicked
# this function will clear the output file and then read open it
# will call the generateEmail function from scripts.py file
# outputs the amount of records based on the user input in the entry text box
outputFile = scripts.generateName(userValue)
file = open('output.txt', 'w').close()
file = open('output.txt', 'w')
file.write(str(outputFile))
def outputCost(userValue):
outputFile = scripts.generateCost(userValue)
file = open('output.txt', 'w').close()
file = open('output.txt', 'w')
file.write(str(outputFile))
def outputProduct(userValue):
outputFile = scripts.generateProduct(userValue)
file = open('output.txt', 'w').close()
file = open('output.txt', 'w')
file.write(str(outputFile))
def outputPhoneNumber(userValue):
outputFile = scripts.generatePhoneNumber(userValue)
file = open('output.txt', 'w').close()
file = open('output.txt', 'w')
file.write(str(outputFile))
# creates 5 buttons each have their respective output function attached using command=
emailButton = Button(window, text="EMAILS",
command=outputEmails(userValue)).place(x=40, y=50)
nameButton = Button(
window, text="FIRST AND LAST NAMES", command=outputNames(userValue)).place(x=40, y=100)
productButton = Button(window, text="PRODUCTS",
command=outputProduct(userValue)).place(x=40, y=200)
phoneNumberButton = Button(
window, text="PHONE NUMBERS").place(x=40, y=250)
costButton = Button(window, text="PRICES",
command=outputCost(userValue)).place(x=40, y=150)
window.mainloop()
# file -> scripts.py
import random
def generateName(numberOfItemsNeed):
# opens 2 files. One containing first names and the other containing last names
firstNameFile = open('dataFiles\FirstNamesData.txt', 'r')
lastNameFile = open('dataFiles\LastNamesData.txt', 'r')
# builds values for the while statement and the return string
returnValue = ""
counter = 0
# builds the return string using a while loop and removing the newline character
# after each line from both files when being read
while counter < int(numberOfItemsNeed):
returnValue += str(firstNameFile.readline().strip("\n")
) + " " + str(lastNameFile.readline().strip("\n")) + "\n"
counter = counter + 1
# returns a list of "human" names in a single string divided by a newline character
return (returnValue)
def generateEmail(numberOfItemsNeed):
# opens a file containing a records of first names
firstNameFile = open('dataFiles\dictonary.txt', 'r')
counter = 0
# A list of commonly used email address suffixs
suffix = ['@gmail.com', '@gmail.ca', '@hotmail.com',
'@hotmail.ca', '@mail.com ', '@mail.ca', '@gov.ca']
returnValue = ""
while counter < int(numberOfItemsNeed):
returnValue += firstNameFile.readline().strip("\n") + \
str((random.randrange(0, 100))) + \
suffix[random.randrange(0, len(suffix))]+'\n'
counter = counter + 1
return (returnValue)
def generateCost(numberOfItemsNeed):
# generates a random item price in the inclusive range of 0.00$ to 1000.99$
counter = 0
cost = ""
while counter < int(numberOfItemsNeed):
cost += '$' + str(random.randrange(0, 1000)) + \
"." + str(random.randrange(0, 99)) + '\n'
counter = counter+1
return cost
def generateProduct(numberOfItemsNeed):
counter = 0
returnValue = ""
productList = open('dataFiles\itemData.txt', 'r')
while counter < int(numberOfItemsNeed):
returnValue += str(productList.readline()
).strip("\n") + str(generateCost(1))
counter = counter + 1
return (returnValue)
def generatePhoneNumber(numberOfItemsNeed):
counter = 0
returnValue = ""
while counter < int(numberOfItemsNeed):
firstNumber = str(random.randrange(100, 999))
secondNumber = str(random.randrange(1000, 9999))
thirdNumber = str(random.randrange(100, 999))
returnValue += firstNumber + "-" + secondNumber + "-" + thirdNumber + '\n'
counter = counter + 1
return (returnValue)
def shuffleFile(filePath):
lines = open(filePath).readlines()
random.shuffle(lines)
open(filePath, 'w').writelines(lines)
# shuffleFile('dataFiles\dictonary.txt')
