I need to get a canvas in tkinter to set its width to the width of the window, and then dynamically re-size the canvas when the user makes the window smaller/bigger.
Is there any way of doing this (easily)?
I thought I would add in some extra code to expand on @fredtantini's answer, as it doesn't deal with how to update the shape of widgets drawn on the Canvas
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To do this you need to use the scale
method and tag all of the widgets. A complete example is below.
from Tkinter import *
# a subclass of Canvas for dealing with resizing of windows
class ResizingCanvas(Canvas):
def __init__(self,parent,**kwargs):
Canvas.__init__(self,parent,**kwargs)
self.bind("<Configure>", self.on_resize)
self.height = self.winfo_reqheight()
self.width = self.winfo_reqwidth()
def on_resize(self,event):
# determine the ratio of old width/height to new width/height
wscale = float(event.width)/self.width
hscale = float(event.height)/self.height
self.width = event.width
self.height = event.height
# resize the canvas
self.config(width=self.width, height=self.height)
# rescale all the objects tagged with the "all" tag
self.scale("all",0,0,wscale,hscale)
def main():
root = Tk()
myframe = Frame(root)
myframe.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES)
mycanvas = ResizingCanvas(myframe,width=850, height=400, bg="red", highlightthickness=0)
mycanvas.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES)
# add some widgets to the canvas
mycanvas.create_line(0, 0, 200, 100)
mycanvas.create_line(0, 100, 200, 0, fill="red", dash=(4, 4))
mycanvas.create_rectangle(50, 25, 150, 75, fill="blue")
# tag all of the drawn widgets
mycanvas.addtag_all("all")
root.mainloop()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()