Help with display placement

[Samantha]

I am new to Python and am attempting to write a routine that will display a
five game selection for a power ball drawing. I think I have the random
drawing set to work ok, but I want to have the dialog box move in the center
of my screen. I can't seem to get the code correct to do this. Any help
would be appreciated.
Thanks,
S
This is the routine I have.
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import random
from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()


frame = Label(root, width=50, height=2, background = 'white', text =
'PowerBall Numbers')
frame.pack()

def GetNumbers():

numbers = random.sample(x range(53), 5)
numbers.sort()
numbers[0] = numbers[0] + 1

numbers[1] = numbers[1] + 1

numbers[2] = numbers[2] + 1

numbers[3] = numbers[3] + 1

numbers[4] = numbers[4] + 1
powerball = random.sample(x range(42), 1)
powerball[0] = powerball[0] + 1

return numbers, powerball

y = 0
sp1 = sp2 = sp3 = sp4 = sp5 =' '
w = 0
for x in range(5):
y = y + 1
MyNumbers= GetNumbers()
x = MyNumbers

num1= str(x[0][0])

num2 = str(x[0][1])

num3 = str(x[0][2])

num4 = str(x[0][3])

num5 = str(x[0][4])

pbnum = str(MyNumbers[1][0])

root.title =('Powerball Numbers')
w = Label(root, width=50, height=2, background= 'white' , text='Game
'+str(y)+': Numbers: '+num1.zfill(2) +' '+num2.zfill(2) +' '+num3.zfill(2) +'
'+num4.zfill(2) +' '+num5.zfill(2) +' '+'PowerBall: '+pbnum.zfill(2 ))
w.pack()

root.mainloop()

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[akameswaran@gmail.com]

Re: Help with display placement

This code come up, fairly centered in my screen. What do you mean by
move?

[Samantha]

Re: Help with display placement

I want to be able to control where the dialog is displayed . X,Y location
from the upper left corner of the screen.
S
<akameswaran@gm ail.com> wrote in message
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> This code come up, fairly centered in my screen. What do you mean by
> move?
>[/color]

[akameswaran@gmail.com]

Re: Help with display placement

Ok so I'm not to bright sometimes

Well if you want this kinda control I suggest you go ahead and subclass
toplevel, but the simple answer before running

root.mainloop()


make a call to

root.geometry(g eometryString)



geoometrystring is in the format WxH+X+Y - you may hve to do some
screen calcs first to get the right numbers. ie "50x100+50+ 50" create
a 50pix by 100 pix window offset 50 from the top and 50 from the left.

To my mind, better to subclass toplevel and set everything in there -
but's mostly stylistic preference for something this simple.

And while I'm making suggestions ;) Try wxPython. I used tKinter for
about 3 months before tossing it in frustration when I wanted to do
somtheing "slick" , but I have a lot of fondness for some quick and
dirty UI's I did in tKinter a ways back.

[Samantha]

Re: Help with display placement

Thanks, think I have it now.
S
<akameswaran@gm ail.com> wrote in message
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> Ok so I'm not to bright sometimes
>
> Well if you want this kinda control I suggest you go ahead and subclass
> toplevel, but the simple answer before running
>
> root.mainloop()
>
>
> make a call to
>
> root.geometry(g eometryString)
>
>
>
> geoometrystring is in the format WxH+X+Y - you may hve to do some
> screen calcs first to get the right numbers. ie "50x100+50+ 50" create
> a 50pix by 100 pix window offset 50 from the top and 50 from the left.
>
> To my mind, better to subclass toplevel and set everything in there -
> but's mostly stylistic preference for something this simple.
>
> And while I'm making suggestions ;) Try wxPython. I used tKinter for
> about 3 months before tossing it in frustration when I wanted to do
> somtheing "slick" , but I have a lot of fondness for some quick and
> dirty UI's I did in tKinter a ways back.
>[/color]