How to collect user input from Entry Widget.

 

Here we will learn how to collect value entered by user in Entry Widget.  get() is used to collect value from Entry Widget.

Entry_Widget_Class_Object.get()

below is the code to collect value from Entry widget on button click, GUI will look like as above image

 #project to destroy window

 try:
     from Tkinter import *
 except:
     from tkinter import *

 def collect_data():
     data=entry.get()
     print("data entered by user : ",data)


 mw = Tk()

 mw.geometry("500x100+50+50")
 mw.title("AETies : Automation Expert Technologies")

 label = Label(mw, text='to collect data from Entry Widet')
 label.grid(row=1, column=1)
 entry = Entry(mw, width=20)
 entry.grid(row=2, column=2)
 btn = Button(mw, text='collect data', command=collect_data)
 btn.grid(row=2, column=3)

 mw.mainloop()

 #Output

 data entered by user :  Er M S Dandyan

To print user entered data on GUI application itself

Code :

 #project to destroy window

 try:
     from Tkinter import *
 except:
     from tkinter import *

 def collect_data():
     data=entry.get()
     var.set(data)

 mw = Tk()
 var=StringVar()
 mw.geometry("500x200+50+50")
 mw.title("AETies : Automation Expert Technologies")

 label = Label(mw, text='to collect data from Entry Widet')
 label.grid(row=1, column=1)
 entry = Entry(mw, width=20)
 entry.grid(row=2, column=2)
 btn = Button(mw, text='collect data', command=collect_data)
 btn.grid(row=2, column=3)
 output_lbl = Label(mw, text='Data collected is')
 output_lbl.grid(row=4, column=1)
 message = Message(mw, textvariable=var, width=200)
 message.grid(row=5, column=2)


 mw.mainloop()