This is an API to provide a custom sidebar for use in Tkinter programs. Very basic in its current iteration and, as such, is a work in progress.
You will need to have Python 3 and tkinter installed on your system in order to run this program.
To run the program, simply run the sidebar_example.py file using Python
python sidebar.py
This will start the program and display a sidebar widget on the right side of the screen.
The sidebar widget can be used to display additional information or controls in a tkinter program. You can add widgets to the sidebar using the add_widget method of the Sidebar class.
sidebar = Sidebar(root, 300, 'right')
label = tk.Label(text='My Label', font=('Arial', 12), bg='white')
sidebar.add_widget(label)
By default, widgets added to the sidebar are not hideable. Widgets can optionally have a hide/show button associated with them via the canhide attribute when adding them, shown below using the previous example.
sidebar.add_widget(label, canhide=True)
You can also remove widgets from the sidebar using the remove_widget method.
sidebar.remove_widget(label)
If you would like to contribute to this project, feel free to submit a pull request.
Initial work - https://github.com/FineFuturity (@FineFuturity)