How do I get the fractions of the visible part of a canvas?

[Mickel Grönroos]

Hi,

I have a Tkinter.Canvas of variable width. Is there a standard way of
asking the canvas which parts of it that is visible? I.e. on the
horizontal scale, I would like to know at what fraction from the left the
left visibility border is and from what fraction to the right the right
visibility border is.

Consider this ascii picture as an example

+-------------------------------+
| |<-- the full canvas
| a------------------+ |
| | |<--------- the currently visible part
| +------------------b |
| |
+-------------------------------+

I would like to be able to ask the canvas something like:

t = canvas.visiblebox()

and it would return a two-tuple of two-tuples with coordinates (of the
a and b points in the picture above), say:

t = ((10,10), (90,30))

Using these values I could calculate the fractions myself.

Any ideas?

/Mickel

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[Eric Brunel]

Mickel Grönroos wrote:

Hi,

I have a Tkinter.Canvas of variable width. Is there a standard way of
asking the canvas which parts of it that is visible? I.e. on the
horizontal scale, I would like to know at what fraction from the left the
left visibility border is and from what fraction to the right the right
visibility border is.

Consider this ascii picture as an example

+-------------------------------+
| |<-- the full canvas
| a------------------+ |
| | |<--------- the currently visible part
| +------------------b |
| |
+-------------------------------+

I would like to be able to ask the canvas something like:

t = canvas.visiblebox()

and it would return a two-tuple of two-tuples with coordinates (of the
a and b points in the picture above), say:

t = ((10,10), (90,30))

Using these values I could calculate the fractions myself.

Any ideas?

This should do what you want:

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from Tkinter import *

## Initialize Tk
root = Tk()
root.grid_rowconfigure(0, weight=1)
root.grid_columnconfigure(0, weight=1)

## Create the canvas
cnv = Canvas(root, scrollregion=(0, 0, 1000, 1000), width=200, height=200)
cnv.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky='nswe')

## Create the scrollbars
hs = Scrollbar(root, orient=HORIZONTAL, command=cnv.xview)
vs = Scrollbar(root, orient=VERTICAL, command=cnv.yview)
cnv.configure(xscrollcommand=hs.set, yscrollcommand=vs.set)
hs.grid(row=1, column=0, sticky='we')
vs.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky='ns')

## This is the function you want:
def showVisibleRegion():
x1, y1 = cnv.canvasx(0), cnv.canvasy(0)
w, h = cnv.winfo_width(), cnv.winfo_height()
x2, y2 = cnv.canvasx(w), cnv.canvasy(h)
print x1, y1, x2, y2

b = Button(root, text='Show', command=showVisibleRegion)
b.grid(row=2, column=0, columnspan=2)

root.mainloop()
--------------------------------

The methods canvasx and canvasy on a Canvas convert a coordinate in the
displayed canvas to a coordinate in the underlying region:

+------------------------------+
| |
| |
| +----------------------+ |
| | | |
| |<--x-->| | |
| | + | |
| | | | |
| +-------|--------------+ |
|<---xx---->| |
| |
+------------------------------+

Here, cnv.canvasx(x) = xx

So, taking the canvasx and canvasy of (0, 0) gives you the coordinates for the
top-left corner of the region you want, and taking the canvasx and canvasy of
the canvas's dimensions gives you the bottom-right one.

HTH
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