Cannot use geometry manager grid inside . which already has slaves managed by pack

Question

Problem :

I am trying to make the rss reader using my tkinter library, and in one of the methods I am creating the text widget. It displays pretty fine until I try to add the scrollbars to it.

Below is my code before the scrollbars:

def txtcreate_text(tbxself, root):
tbxself.textbox = Text(root, height = 10, width = 79, wrap = 'word')
tbxself.textbox.grid(column = 0, row = 0)

Below is my code after scrollbars :

def txtcreate_text(tbxself, root):
tbxself.textbox = Text(root, height = 10, width = 79, wrap = 'word')
sbvertscroll = ttk.Scrollbar(root)
sbvertscroll.config(command=tbxself.textbox.yview)
sbvertscroll.pack(side="right", fill="y", expand=False)
tbxself.textbox.config(yscrllcommand=sbvertscroll.set)
tbxself.textbox.pack(side="left", fill="both", expand=True)
tbxself.textbox.grid(column = 0, row = 0)

This gives me below error :

"_tkinter.TclError: cannot use geometry manager pack inside .56155888 which already has slaves managed by grid on the line vertscroll.pack(side="right", fill="y", expand=False)"

 

Any ideas how to fix above error?

Answer 1

As per the docs, please do not mix the pack and the grid in your same master window:

Warning: Never mix the grid and pack in your same master window. Tkinter will happily spend your rest of the lifetime trying to negotiate the solution that both managers are happy with it. Instead of waiting for that, try to kill your application, and make sure to have another look at the code. The common mistake is to use your wrong parent for some of your widgets.

So if you want to call grid on the textbox, then please do not call pack on the scrollbar.