Closing Tkinter window and opening another-CodePudding

I am trying to build a simple hangman game. I want to have a window at the beginning to ask for the "secret word". I then want that window to close and have another window open with the game. I can't think of a way to do this without building the entire game within a funciton. How is best to accomplish this?

CodePudding user response：

I believe what you are looking for is a Toplevel window and it behaves just like a normal root window. Below is a quick and dirty example:

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Game window")
root.iconify()#Hide from user site, still exists as a minimised window


def submitSecretWord():
    #code to collect secret word or what ever
    root.deiconify()#Make visible
    second_window.destroy()#close second window


#make toplevel window
second_window = tk.Toplevel(master=root)


#make widgets
secret_word_entry = tk.Entry(master=second_window)#Belongs to the second window

submit_button = tk.Button(master=second_window, text="Submit secret word", command=submitSecretWord) #Belongs to the second window

#pack widgets
secret_word_entry.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
submit_button.pack(side=tk.RIGHT)


root.mainloop()

CodePudding user response：

Create another window? Try this:

use multiple functions

from tkinter import *
from turtle import onclick


def gameWindow(word):
    window = Tk()
    Label(text=word).pack()
    # your game code

    def anotherGuess():
        window.destroy()
        getWord()
    Button(text='another guess?', command=anotherGuess).pack()
    window.mainloop()


def getWord():
    window = Tk()
    entry = Entry(master=window)
    entry.pack()

    def onclick():
        word = entry.get()
        window.destroy()
        gameWindow(word)
    btn = Button(master=window, text="submit", command=onclick)
    btn.pack()
    window.mainloop()


def main():
    getWord()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()