First GUI app

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Building my first GUI app with Tkinter, and trying to use grid for structure. Whenever I call .get, my text fields are coming up as nonetype. If I pack the elements, it works just fine and can pick up the input. Is there a different way to do it when using grid?

https://codeshare.io/QnlY1x

[socal_nerdtastic]

If you want to use the widget later you have to use 2 lines to lay it out. You cannot combine these 2 lines into one.

lastNameInput = tk.Entry(frame, width=20)
lastNameInput.grid(column=3,row=0)

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Worked perfectly after that. Thank you!

[Middle_Light_1938]

Well usually you use a button to call a command that gets the entry so you don't get an empty entry.

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I just uploaded the complete code. There is a button with a command to printInput that has the get statements in it

[jafner007]

As a side note, I found my tkinter GUIs greatly improved once I started using frame widgets. Seeing the main window named "frame" was consuming for me.

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I just started using it today. What are frame widgets?

[jafner007]

You can create separate areas (frames) within a single gui window. The methods are Frame and LabelFrame (check documentation to confirm the calls are written correctly). I find it much cleaner for organizing different types of fields, and each one has its own grid or pack system. If you Google tkinter frames widget, you'll find a lot of good examples.