How To Set Tab Order And Focus - Python Tkinter GUI Tutorial #138

In this video I'll show you how to set the cursor focus and tab order for widgets with tkinter.

Setting the focus (which widget the mouse cursor is set to by default) is as easy as setting the .focus() function of that widget.

Setting the tab order can be easy or hard. I'll show you two methods to do it, one by defining them in a specific order, the other by using the lift() function.

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[CodingIsFun]

Great video John as always! You are taking Tkinter to the next level :)

[adityaprabhakar]

that's exactly what i needed. So glad that he has covered all my requirements for tkinter. Thank you

[SusanAmberBruce]

If you can answer a question, I have one, what if you have 3 Entry widgets and two radio buttons, and you want focus to be between two of the Entry widgets depending on which radio button is selected?

[klokipo]

Hi. Your videos are really instructive. Just I'm having an opposite problem, getting rid of button focus. Button focus helped me to start the program by pressing the keyboard space bar instead of clicking the Start Game button. And now I have a problem flipping the button back to the non-focus state. Is there any simple let say one line solution? I made an attempt by configure(state='normal') but it doesn’t help.

[Kins]

Hey .. but what if where we need the focus is inside a certain frame ( how to access one of the components inside the frame ) .thanks

[akilasivakumar]

pls tell me how to do like search default like in youtube
when we click it, it should erase

[ali-mwnf]

Great Sir please help me, how can we focus from entry to Treeview data column by pressing Tab in the keyboard.

[frozone]

I am having trouble making two files with python Tkinter. I see ur video about that but it did not work
I want to have 2 files that have two different windows if u press on window one u go to window two.
CAn u plz help me I am being run with this problem and I can't stop it? Ur the only person left to help me

[programminghub]

hey man this is great by any change is there a way to put the focus on entry box using enter key, let's take example i have two entry widget initially i put the focus on entry1 and I want the cursor to go to entry 2 as I press the enter key

[ramehharmouch]

How to set a placeholder in the entry ?

[aneeshmalapaka]

sir i have a doubt, its not about this but I donno whom to ask, so In my code i am trying to write a part where i want to know which button the user pressed, precisely i am writing a code for rock paper scissors and at a point i want to see that
if buttonpressed == what computer chose using randint
then its draw..like that button how to know what button is pressed by user...pls help me with this

[good-gpt-chatbot]

I got multiple buttons on my GUI. I want some functions (different for each button) to take place whenever I press different keys on my keyboard.
But the .bind requires the button to be focused on, and I don't want to press 'Tab' to set focus on a particular button, then press the key for that, and then have it execute the corresponding feature, every single time. In other words, is there a way I can bind keyboard keys to buttons and having them run their particular functions without me having to press Tab to set focus, each time?

[cmputerprgrammer]

Sir, how to keep your root window on top of other windows??
Is it root.lift() ??

[akankshaubale]

Pls, Make a Video on 'How to make the text to speak with the help of the espeak module of the python.'

[MayankKumar-yxdp]

Please also make video on tkinter and database (sqlite3) together.

[raidenbit]

white.focus()
def tab_order():
red.focus()
widgets = [blue, white, red]
for w in widgets:
w.lift()
my_button = Button(root, text = "Change Tab Order", command = tab_order)
my_button.pack(pady=10)
tab_order()


Hi，i change code and run it (blue.focus to red.focus)，it should be focus on red，but still focus on white ，why?

[ebaadkhan]

Plz show us how to make intros of apps and games without creating a new window

[MOHAMEDGHARBI]

Hi, it's not work with python 3.9.

[inventoryapp]

def clearEntry():
userField = user_text.get()
userField.delete(0, END) --- AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'delete' ---- how to solve it?