board-drawing code to move an oval

Question

I am working on a python checkers game for college. I have the board drawn, using tk, but I can't seem to implement a movement function for the pieces. If anyone see any errors in my code, or can offer help, I would appreciate. Here is the complete source. Thanks in advance.

I know that this draws the checker pieces. I don't know how to redraw the pieces, without deleting the other pieces. I have looked online at the move function, and tried simple test that worked, yet I have not been able to use it in my code.

I do know of recursion, however, I need the basic function to work, i.e. actually moving a piece on the screen, before I implement any more functions.

lst2 = []

#counter variable
i=0

#board variable is what stores the X/O/- values.
# It's a 2D list. We iterate over it, looking to see
# if there is a value that is X or O. If so, we draw
# text to the screen in the appropriate spot (based on
# i and j.
while i < len(board):
  j=0
  while j < len(board[i]):

    if board[i][j] == 2:
      lst2.append(canvas.create_oval((i+1)*width + width/2 + 15,
        (j+1)*height + height/2 +15,(i+1)*width + width/2 - 15,
        (j+1)*width + width/2 - 15, fill="Red",outline='Black'))
    elif board[i][j] == 4:
      lst2.append(canvas.create_oval((i+1)*width + width/2 + 15,
        (j+1)*height + height/2 +15,(i+1)*width + width/2 - 15,
        (j+1)*width + width/2 - 15, fill="Red",outline='Black'))
    elif board[i][j] == 1:
      lst2.append(canvas.create_oval((i+1)*width + width/2 + 15,
        (j+1)*height + height/2 +15,(i+1)*width + width/2 - 15,
        (j+1)*width + width/2 - 15, fill="Black",outline='Black'))
    elif board[i][j] == 3:
      lst2.append(canvas.create_oval((i+1)*width + width/2 + 15,
        (j+1)*height + height/2 +15,(i+1)*width + width/2 - 15,
        (j+1)*width + width/2 - 15, fill="Black",outline='Black'))

    j+=1

  i+=1

Answer 1

You can move an item on a canvas using the coords and/or move methods to change the coordinates from what they are to what you want them to be.

Here's a simple example showing how to create and move an item on a canvas:

import tkinter as tk     # python 3
# import Tkinter as tk   # python 2

class Example(tk.Frame):
    """Illustrate how to drag items on a Tkinter canvas"""

    def __init__(self, parent):
        tk.Frame.__init__(self, parent)

        # create a canvas
        self.canvas = tk.Canvas(width=400, height=400, background="bisque")
        self.canvas.pack(fill="both", expand=True)

        # this data is used to keep track of an
        # item being dragged
        self._drag_data = {"x": 0, "y": 0, "item": None}

        # create a couple of movable objects
        self.create_token(100, 100, "white")
        self.create_token(200, 100, "black")

        # add bindings for clicking, dragging and releasing over
        # any object with the "token" tag
        self.canvas.tag_bind("token", "<ButtonPress-1>", self.drag_start)
        self.canvas.tag_bind("token", "<ButtonRelease-1>", self.drag_stop)
        self.canvas.tag_bind("token", "<B1-Motion>", self.drag)

    def create_token(self, x, y, color):
        """Create a token at the given coordinate in the given color"""
        self.canvas.create_oval(
            x - 25,
            y - 25,
            x + 25,
            y + 25,
            outline=color,
            fill=color,
            tags=("token",),
        )

    def drag_start(self, event):
        """Begining drag of an object"""
        # record the item and its location
        self._drag_data["item"] = self.canvas.find_closest(event.x, event.y)[0]
        self._drag_data["x"] = event.x
        self._drag_data["y"] = event.y

    def drag_stop(self, event):
        """End drag of an object"""
        # reset the drag information
        self._drag_data["item"] = None
        self._drag_data["x"] = 0
        self._drag_data["y"] = 0

    def drag(self, event):
        """Handle dragging of an object"""
        # compute how much the mouse has moved
        delta_x = event.x - self._drag_data["x"]
        delta_y = event.y - self._drag_data["y"]
        # move the object the appropriate amount
        self.canvas.move(self._drag_data["item"], delta_x, delta_y)
        # record the new position
        self._drag_data["x"] = event.x
        self._drag_data["y"] = event.y

if __name__ == "__main__":
    root = tk.Tk()
    Example(root).pack(fill="both", expand=True)
    root.mainloop()