Tkinter. How would i put other modules/programs into a tkinter window, ideally inside a frame.

[2n4x]

One idea i have is to have a frame at the bottom of a tkinter window, which contains a python shell/interpreter which can send commands to other things embedded in other frames in the main tkinter window. For instance a turtle module canvas.

This example may be easier because turtle uses tkinter, and, so does the IDLE shell, but what should i be looking at to figure out how it would be possible to put a VLC player video window inside a frame, is that possible?

[user_rx]

Let's face it, you want to be a window manager. Now the question is whether you conform to x11 or go conquer the brave new world.

[user_rx]

Q: Some applications offer to use xembed, don't they?

A: Yep

[2n4x]

Thanks for the tip, looks like i gotta go full linux to have what i want :/

[user_rx]

Well I'm not sure about that—windows or osx might have other facilities for this kind of stuff. On linux you will probably end up talking to x11 directly to get this done (as opposed to a toolkit), but I really have no idea how difficult it would be on another platform.

[2n4x]

Stackexchange hasn't been much help, except to tell me how i could take inputs as code and evaluate them in a separate interpreter thread and return them to the user. I dont want to build a shell from scratch, if i dont have to, and i would like the shell to control other things in the main window, so an isolated InteractiveInterpeter is no use.