[Question] How do I redraw the entire window layout in PySimpleGUI

[xmlztw]

Type of Issue : Question

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Operating System

PySimpleGUI Port : tkinter

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Versions

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Python version : 3.4.4 (v3.4.4:737efcadf5a6, Dec 20 2015, 19:28:18) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)]

PySimpleGUI Version : 4.60.5

GUI Version : 8.6.1

Troubleshooting

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• Searched main docs for your problem PySimpleGUI Documenation
• Looked for Demo Programs that are similar to your goal. It is recommend you use the Demo Browser! Demo Programs
• None of your GUI code was generated by an AI algorithm like GPT
• If not tkinter - looked for Demo Programs for specific port
• For non tkinter - Looked at readme for your specific port if not PySimpleGUI (Qt, WX, Remi)
• Run your program outside of your debugger (from a command line)
• Searched through Issues (open and closed) to see if already reported Issues.PySimpleGUI.com
• Have upgraded to the latest release of PySimpleGUI on PyPI (lastest official version)
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• For licensing questions please email license@PySimpleGUI.com

Detailed Description

How do I redraw the entire window layout in PySimpleGUI? I tried calling self.window.layout(layout), but it didn't work.

[xmlztw]

Type of Issue : Question

Operating System

PySimpleGUI Port : tkinter

Versions

Version information can be obtained by calling sg.main_get_debug_data() Or you can print each version shown in ()

Python version : 3.4.4 (v3.4.4:737efcadf5a6, Dec 20 2015, 19:28:18) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)]

PySimpleGUI Version : 4.60.5

GUI Version : 8.6.1

Detailed Description

How do I redraw the entire window layout in PySimpleGUI? I tried calling self.window.layout(layout), but it didn't work.

[jason990420]

More detailed information: Missing Troubleshooting Section

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Troubleshooting

These items may solve your problem. Please check those you've done by changing - [ ] to - [X]

• Searched main docs for your problem PySimpleGUI Documenation
• Looked for Demo Programs that are similar to your goal. It is recommend you use the Demo Browser! Demo Programs
• None of your GUI code was generated by an AI algorithm like GPT
• If not tkinter - looked for Demo Programs for specific port
• For non tkinter - Looked at readme for your specific port if not PySimpleGUI (Qt, WX, Remi)
• Run your program outside of your debugger (from a command line)
• Searched through Issues (open and closed) to see if already reported Issues.PySimpleGUI.com
• Have upgraded to the latest release of PySimpleGUI on PyPI (lastest official version)
• Tried running the Development Build. Your problem may have already been fixed but not released. Check Home Window for release notes and upgrading capability
• For licensing questions please email license@PySimpleGUI.com

[jason990420]

layout(rows)

Second of two preferred ways of telling a Window what its layout is. The other way is to pass the layout as
a parameter to Window object. The parameter method is the currently preferred method. This call to Layout
has been removed from examples contained in documents and in the Demo Programs. Trying to remove this call
from history and replace with sending as a parameter to Window.

To update your GUI immediately, call window.refresh(), or the GUI will be updated only until you call window.raad().

To renew your window, you may do it like following example, new elements in the layout will all be reinitialized, not reuse the layout.

import PySimpleGUI as sg

def new_window(width=45):
    layout = [[sg.Input(size=width, key='-IN-'), sg.Button("OK")]]
    return sg.Window("Title", layout, finalize=True)

window = new_window()

while True:

    event, values = window.read()

    if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED:
        break

    elif event == "OK":
        try:
            n = int(values['-IN-'])
        except:
            n = -1
        if 0 < n < 80:
            win = new_window(n)
            window.close()
            window = win

window.close()

[PySimpleGUI]

If you want to retain the values already entered into the window, then you can use the new setting parameter was added to elements in the PySimpleGUI 5 release.

You will need to upgrade your environment, which I recommend regardless as you're running a very old version of Python (3.4) and an extremely old version of tkinter (8.6.1). You should be getting a warning message about your tkinter version being too old.

The parameter is shown in the documentation, primarily here:
https://docs.pysimplegui.com/en/latest/documentation/module/user_settings/#settings-defined-in-layouts

I added a Demo Program that shows how to use this parameter as well and included an example of "restarting" / redrawing a window should you need a feature like this for you application.

https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI/blob/master/DemoPrograms/Demo_User_Settings_Element_setting_Parameter.py