Python popup menu for main app gui

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I am new to Python, trying to make the Launch TFL App button open another GUI called "Menu GUI" but I don't know what to do for the def open_Menu(): function below. I want to use the popup GUI below as a launcher which takes the user to my main GUI. The only problem with the code below is that the button for launch TFL app doesn't do anything when you click it. Here's my current code :

How can I implement open_menu()

What I have tried:

Python

from tkinter import *


root = Tk()

root.title('TFL App')

p = Label(root, text = "TFL Journey Planner", height = "18", width = "250", bg = 'brown', fg = 
'white',
      font = ('Helvetica', '20', 'bold', 'italic'))
p.pack()
root.configure(bg = 'brown')
root.geometry('400x700')

photo = PhotoImage(file = 'trainstation.png')
label = Label(root, image = photo)

label.pack()


****#Buttons****

def open_Menu():
    
    

Button1 = Button(root, text = "Launch TFL App", command = open_Menu, bg = "black", fg = 'white', padx 
 = 40,
             pady = 10,
             font = ('Calibri Light', '15', 'bold'))
Button1.pack(padx = 25, pady = 0)


Button2 = Button(root, text = "Exit ", command = root.destroy, bg = "black", fg = 'white', padx = 65, 
pady = 8,
             font = ('Calibri Light', '15', 'bold'))
Button2.pack(padx = 25, pady = 10)

root.mainloop()

Posted 6-Nov-20 6:13am

Sreeraj Nair

Updated 11-Nov-20 4:05am

Richard MacCutchan

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Richard MacCutchan 7-Nov-20 4:11am

"but it doesn't work."
Sorry, but we are not mind readers. Please use the Improve question link above and explain in detail exactly what the problem is, and where it occurs.

Richard MacCutchan 11-Nov-20 9:34am

Well you have changed much of the question but not really explained what the issue is. And you have now removed MainMenu(): and replaced it with open_Menu(): but that also does nothing. You need to add some code to do whatever open_Menu is supposed to do.

[no name] 11-Nov-20 9:47am

The code above is for my first GUI and everything works except the "Launch TFL App" Button. I am trying to create a function that allows the def open_Menu():, to open my main GUI through the "Launch TFL App" Button on my first GUI.

Richard MacCutchan 11-Nov-20 9:54am

Yes, because open_Menu does not do anything.

[no name] 11-Nov-20 10:06am

would this work?
def OpenMenu():
import Menu

Richard MacCutchan 11-Nov-20 10:44am

Probably not. You need to write some actual code to create and display whatever it is that you want this method to do. The import command merely makes the module accessible from your program.

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Solution 1

OK, so a longer look at the code reveals that your program is designed to do nothing.
1. The definition of the launcher button:

Python

button = Button(root, text = 'Launch TFL App', command = MainMenu, bg = "black", fg = 'white', padx =

which calls the function MainMenu.

2. The definition of MainMenu

Python

def MainMenu():
    pass # which means "do nothing".

Posted 7-Nov-20 3:05am

Richard MacCutchan

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-11T04:07:00

Solution 2

I strongly suggest you go to Graphical User Interfaces with Tk — Python 3.7.9 documentation[^] and see how to construct a well ordered tk application.

Posted 11-Nov-20 4:07am

Richard MacCutchan