使用python在单个窗口中打开其他应用程序

Question

I am new to python and want to learn this from the basic. I want to open two other application like notepad in a single window. I searched for any examples by using "tkinter". Any idea for implementing this using "tkinter".

PS: two tabs one in left and one in right so that one tab will be having notepad and other will have a media player (let say) and i should be able to close the single parent window for closing this child windows.

Answer 1

For what you need, you will have to use libraries like tkinter or pyqt. As you want to learn it from the basic, I would suggest you to pick a GUI library and start learning it. Eventually you will know how to get the result that you desire.

Answer 2

I don't think you will be able to do this easily. Notepad is using its own toolkit which, most probably, is not compatible with the one you are using.

If you want to open eg. an editor, look for a widget in the toolkit of your choice which does what you want (or nearly). Eg. if you want an editor, use the GtkTextView in GTK, or, if you want something that can do code editing, look at GtkSourceView, etc. Same goes for media applications.

The 'include' applications as part of a project works only to a certain point. You can eg, include text-mode applications in a terminal window, but graphical apps are much harder.

Answer 3

On Unix systems with X server the XEmbed protocol exists for such purpose, but it requires the child application to be specifically prepared for that (here's a related question ).

On Windows this can be accomplished using the Win32 API. You have to get the handles of the parent and child windows and use the SetParent function.

Here's a proof of concept:

from tkinter import Tk
from win32gui import SetParent, FindWindow, SetWindowPos
import time
import subprocess


def attach_window(window_class, parent, x, y, width, height):
    child = FindWindow(window_class, None)
    SetParent(child, parent)
    SetWindowPos(child, 0, x, y, width, height, 0)


def main():
    root = Tk()

    subprocess.Popen('C:\\Windows\\system32\\notepad.exe')
    subprocess.Popen('C:\\Windows\\system32\\calc.exe')

    # Give child processes enough time to launch
    time.sleep(0.5)

    # Get the HWND of the parent window
    parent = int(root.frame(), 16)

    attach_window('Notepad', parent, 0, 0, 400, 200)
    attach_window('CalcFrame', parent, 0, 205, 420, 320)

    root.geometry('500x500')
    root.mainloop()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Keep in mind that you have to install PyWin32 for this to work.