Place Layout Manager#

For those not altogether familiar with the Place layout manager.

placing 4 labels around widget

Four labels are placed around a widget. The first Label has the text "N" above the widget and placed in the middle of the widget. The Label runs inside the parent of the widget, root in our case and has the text "N":

lab0 = Label(root, text='N')

Place the Label outside the selected widget, which is called by the _in parameter which ties it to the widget where the label is positioned, the Label is to be on the ouside, so specify bordermode='outside':

lab0.place(in_=but,  bordermode='outside', ....

Now to position the Label. Using relx and rely which vary from 0 to 1 and relate to the relative size of the tied in widget. We want N to be in the centre of the widget (relx 0.5) and at the furthest position away from the uppermost side. Use rely as 0 and anchor the Label on its lower side ('s'):

lab0.place(in_=but,  bordermode='outside', relx=0.5, rely=0, anchor='s')

By using bordermode='outside' the width of the widget plus its padding is included in our rely calculation, if the Label text is sitting on the widget border simply make the padding larger.

Show/Hide Code 06place_layout.py

from tkinter import Button, Tk, Label

root = Tk()

but = Button(root, height=2, width=10, bg='yellow')
but.pack(padx=40, pady=40)

lab0 = Label(root, text='N')
lab0.place(in_=but,  bordermode='outside', relx=0.5, rely=0, anchor='s')

lab1 = Label(root, text='W')
lab1.place(in_=but,  bordermode='outside', relx=0, rely=0.5, anchor='e')

lab2 = Label(root, text='E')
lab2.place(in_=but,  bordermode='outside', relx=1, rely=0.5, anchor='w')

lab3 = Label(root, text='S')
lab3.place(in_=but,  bordermode='outside', relx=0.5, rely=1, anchor='n')

root.mainloop()

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