I have a tkinter gui and I would like it to retain the original window position and size upon relaunching.
Here is an answer that illustrates how to set a specific position and dimensions, but not a word about remembering the settings: How to specify where a Tkinter window opens?
Highly appreciate any help.
The only way to remember settings from session to session is to write them into a file. So, get the root window geometry (it's a string) and write it into a file. If you want the function to be executed automatically as a hook, bind it to the "<Configure>" event:
def save_size(event):
with open("myapp.conf", "w") as conf:
conf.write(root.geometry()) # Assuming root is the root window
root.bind("<Configure>",save_size)
You can later read the geometry from the file and restore it.
#Here I save the x and y position of the window to a file "myapp.conf"
#Here I see if the file exists.
if os.path.isfile("myapp.conf"):
#Here I read the X and Y positon of the window from when I last closed it.
with open("myapp.conf", "r") as conf:
root.geometry(conf.read())
else:
#Default window position.
root.geometry('610x270+0+0')
def on_close():
#custom close options, here's one example:
#close = messagebox.askokcancel("Close", "Would you like to close the program?")
#if close:
#Here I write the X Y position of the window to a file "myapp.conf"
with open("myapp.conf", "w") as conf:
conf.write(root.geometry())
root.destroy()
root.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", on_close)
It took me pretty much time to get my head around actual implementation of this. So I wanted to share my final code. Based on DyZ suggestion.
I didn't use <Configure>
event as suggested because only saving before quit is enough for me.
class Window(tk.Tk):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
tk.Tk.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
# ...
# bla bla bla
# My GUI codes came here
# ...
# Try to load last saved window data
self.statusbar['text']="reading ini file..."
ini_file_path = "mapedit.ini"
try:
# if the file is there
# get geometry from file
ini_file = open(ini_file_path,'r')
self.geometry(ini_file.read())
self.statusbar['text']= "ini file read"
ini_file.close()
except:
# if the file is not there, create the file and use default
# then use default geometry.
self.statusbar['text']="ini file not found. New file created."
ini_file = open(ini_file_path, 'w')
ini_file.close()
self.geometry("640x400+100+200")
def client_exit(self):
self.save_geo()
self.destroy()
def save_geo(self):
# save current geometry to the ini file
try:
with open("mapedit.ini", 'w') as ini_file:
ini_file.write(self.geometry())
self.statusbar['text']="geo sv"
ini_file.close()
except:
statusbar['text']="ini file not found"
'''
This is where I created GUI instance
'''
if __name__ == "__main__":
win = Window()
# attach deletion handler to 'client_exit' method
win.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", win.client_exit)
win.mainloop()
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