Hiding/showing Tkinter.Canvas items

[Peter Otten]

Before I start moving them into dark corners of the canvas - is there a way
to hide/show Tkinter canvas items without having to maintain their original
position externally? All I've found so far is sortvisu.py in the demos that
toggles their coordinates between (0,0,0,0) and the real position/size.

Thanks,
Peter

[Eric Brunel]

Peter Otten wrote:

Before I start moving them into dark corners of the canvas - is there a way
to hide/show Tkinter canvas items without having to maintain their original
position externally? All I've found so far is sortvisu.py in the demos that
toggles their coordinates between (0,0,0,0) and the real position/size.

Thanks,
Peter

Not that I know of, and there's apparently nothing like that in the tcl/tk
manual pages. The only thing I can think of is to configure the fill and/or
outline for the items to '', making them invisible. But:
- you have to remember their original fill/outline outside the canvas
- bindings on the items still fire when they are invisible, which may not be
what you want...

HTH
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