TK with Vizard

[DavidHeesom]

Hi

Just downloaded and started to play with TK and Vizard as we want to create an application that uses a windows style interface and menus but is it possible to embed the vizard graphics window into a TK application or is there an example on the forum I have missed somewhere.

Thanks for any help...

[farshizzo]

Here is a simple script that embeds the Vizard graphics window in a Tk application:

import viz
from Tkinter import *
import win32gui

class VizardApp(Frame):
	def __init__(self, master=None):
		Frame.__init__(self, master,width=800, height=600)
		self.pack()
		
		#Embed vizard using the viz.EMBEDDED flag and passing handle to existing window
		viz.go(viz.EMBEDDED,window=self.winfo_id())
		
		#Initialize Vizard environment
		viz.add('tut_ground.wrl')
		ball = viz.add('ball.wrl',pos=(0,1.8,2))
		ball.add(vizact.spin(0,1,0,90))
		
		#Need to setup timer to manually update vizard engine
		self.after(10,self.updateVizard)

	def updateVizard(self):
		"""Update the vizard engine"""
		viz.updateframe()
		self.after(10,self.updateVizard)

# create the application
myapp = VizardApp()

# set title of application
myapp.master.title("Vizard Tkinter example")

# start the program
myapp.mainloop()

We have also embedded Vizard in wxPython applications, and it works a lot better than Tk. If you are not too attached to using Tk, then I would recommend using wxPython.

[DavidHeesom]

Thats great - thanks. I've downloaded wxPython and started looking at that at the moment. Thanks for the help.