Description

Toy window manager in the style of Windows 3.x on Tkinter

Features

• Create new windows
• Drag and resize windows
• Minimize, maximize and close windows
• Create child windows inside other windows
• Context menus for windows
• Window focus

Programs:

Warning! These programs are only demo versions to demonstrate the manager's work and do not have useful functionality.

• Terminal - toy command line
• Notepad - toy notepad
• Calculator - calculator with support for basic operations

You can write your own program, see the instructions below

Installation

The program requires the pillow library to work. You can install it with the command pip install pillow

Usage

Run python main.py to start

Creating your own programs

To add your own program to the manager, create a file of your program in the sources\program directory, for example test.py. Then you can write your code. But you should keep in mind that the main class of your program should inherit from tkinter.Frame

Example:

import tkinter as tk


class Test(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super().__init__(parent)
        self.text_area = tk.Text(
            self, wrap=tk.WORD, width=40, height=10, font=("Fixedsys", 12))
        self.text_area.pack(fill="both", expand=True)

Then in main.py import your program and add something like

import tkinter as tk
...
from sources.program.test import Test


def main():
...
    app.create_window(title="Test", content=Test,
                      size=(50, 200, 500, 300), flags=WindowFlags.WN_RESIZABLE)

...

There are:

• title - this is the title of your window
• content - the object of your program
• size - coordinates and size of the window
• flags - window flags

A little about flags. 'WN' means 'Window Not', so 'WN_DRAGABLE' means 'Window Not Dragable', 'WN_RESIZABLE' means 'Window Not Resizable', and so on. There are 3 of them:

• WN_CONTROLS
• WN_DRAGABLE
• WN_RESIZABLE