Disabling buttons after click in Tkinter

Question

I'm new to Python and I'm trying to make a simple application using Tkinter.

def appear(x):
    return lambda: results.insert(END, x)

letters=["A", "T", "D", "M", "E", "A", "S", "R", "M"] 

for index in range(9): 
    n=letters[index] 
    nButton = Button(buttons, bg="White", text=n, width=5, height=1,
    command =appear(n), relief=GROOVE).grid(padx=2, pady=2, row=index%3,
    column=index/3)

What I'm trying to do is disable the buttons once I click them. I tried

def appear(x):
    nButton.config(state="disabled")
    return lambda: results.insert(END, x)

But it gives me the following error:

NameError: global name 'nButton' is not defined

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:27:32Z

There are a few issues here:

Whenever you create widgets dynamically, you need to store references to them in a collection so that you can access them later.
The grid method of a Tkinter widget always returns None. So, you need to put any calls to grid on their own line.
Whenever you assign a button's command option to a function that requires arguments, you must use a lambda or such to "hide" that call of the function until the button is clicked. For more information, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/20556892/2555451.

Below is a sample script addressing all of these issues:

from Tkinter import Tk, Button, GROOVE

root = Tk()

def appear(index, letter):
    # This line would be where you insert the letter in the textbox
    print letter

    # Disable the button by index
    buttons[index].config(state="disabled")

letters=["A", "T", "D", "M", "E", "A", "S", "R", "M"]

# A collection (list) to hold the references to the buttons created below
buttons = []

for index in range(9): 
    n=letters[index]

    button = Button(root, bg="White", text=n, width=5, height=1, relief=GROOVE,
                    command=lambda index=index, n=n: appear(index, n))

    # Add the button to the window
    button.grid(padx=2, pady=2, row=index%3, column=index/3)

    # Add a reference to the button to 'buttons'
    buttons.append(button)

root.mainloop()

Empire of programmers · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-10 06:36:25Z

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If you want to disable a button after clicking you can make a function in which you will do the desired operation but in the start you should a command to disable the button so that as the function runs it desables the button . if you want you can take a little bit help with this code:-

from tkinter import *
root = Tk()

def disable_button():
    button_1['state'] = DISABLED
    print("this is how you disable a buuton after a click")
button_1 = Button(root,text = "Disable this button",command=disable_button)
button_1.pack()
root.mainloop()

I hope your problem has been solved

Thanks

answered Jun 10, 2022 at 6:36

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Chukwunonso · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-13 13:28:24Z

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This was very helpful for a work I'm currently working on, to add a minor correction

from math import floor



button.grid(padx=2, pady=2, row=index%3, column=floor(index/3))

answered Mar 13, 2018 at 13:28

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