How To Create Tkinter Widgets Inside Parent Class From Sub Class

The first example creates the post titles in his parent which works(except it doesn't delete the old titles when I search new ones), but because imo it looks super messy I wanted t

Solution 1:

Below code has two classes, MainApp to structure outermost frame of our app, and then SearchFrame class that uses a method from MainApp to create a label in its parent widget. In this case SearchFrame's parent widget is MainApp. You can comment out geometry manager to self.frame2 if you want to see that the label is in fact created inside the parent widget subclass MainApp. Again, I doubt that this is good practice:

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()

class MainApp(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master):
        super().__init__(master)

        #a child frame of MainApp object
        self.frame1 = tk.Frame(self)

        tk.Label(self.frame1, text="This is MainApp frame1").pack()

        self.frame1.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky="nsew")


        #another child frame of MainApp object
        self.frame2 = SearchFrame(self)

        self.frame2.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky="nsew")




    def create_labels(self, master):
        return tk.Label(master, text="asd")


class SearchFrame(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master):
        super().__init__(master)

        self.label = tk.Label(self, text="this is SearchFrame")
        self.label.pack()

        master.label1 = MainApp.create_labels(self, master)

        master.label1.grid()


mainAppObject = MainApp(root)
mainAppObject.pack()

root.mainloop()