Add anchor for label widget

[XxDrexX-cmd]

Please add anchor to Label so we can set text to the left of right of the label.

[avalon60]

@XxDrexX-cmd have been going nuts trying to work out what I was doing wrong. CTkLabel appears to accept anchor but it has no effect. Is this your experience?

[TomSchimansky]

It should have an effect when the label is bigger than the actual text. So if you set the label width to 200px and add a small text like "test", it should appear in the middle. You can make the full size of the label visible by setting fg_color="red" for example. And if you set anchor="w", the text should move to the left side.

[avalon60]

Hi @TomSchimansky. Thanks for the reply. Here is an example.

If I use tkinter to produce a status bar, this works as expected:

import tkinter as tk

app = tk.Tk()
app.geometry('300x200')
app.title("Basic Status Bar")

statusbar = tk.Label(app, text="Loading data…", bd=1, relief=tk.SUNKEN, anchor=tk.W)

statusbar.pack(side=tk.BOTTOM, fill=tk.X)
app.mainloop()

However when I use customtkinter (modifying the code slightly), The label text is centred:

import tkinter as tk
import customtkinter as ctk

app = ctk.CTk()
app.geometry('300x200')
app.title("Basic Status Bar")

statusbar = ctk.CTkLabel(app, text="Loading data…", relief=tk.SUNKEN, anchor=tk.W)

statusbar.pack(side=tk.BOTTOM, fill=tk.X)
app.mainloop()

Also the relief=tk.SUNKEN is ignored:

Regards,

Clive

[TomSchimansky]

I think you need to upgrade to version 4.5.8, for me it is working:

However, the I would insert 2 whitespaces, to add a some sort of padding on the left, and add a fg_color:

    import tkinter as tk
    import customtkinter as ctk

    app = ctk.CTk()
    app.geometry('300x200')
    app.title("Basic Status Bar")

    statusbar = ctk.CTkLabel(app, text="  Loading data…", relief=tk.SUNKEN, anchor=tk.W,
                             fg_color=("gray82", "gray23"))

    statusbar.pack(side=tk.BOTTOM, fill=tk.X)
    app.mainloop()

[avalon60]

Blimey @TomSchimansky - that was a prompt response! :o)

Anyway I think you are right. I created that test case on my existing project, which I started a few weeks ago. The version of customtkinter that Pycharm added was 4.5.1. I just created a new project and tried out the same code and it worked. Before reading your response, I was scratching my head, but following your post I checked the versions. The newer project has installed 4.5.8.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Clive