How to Bind Multiple Commands to Tkinter Button?

26 Dec, 2020
The button widget in Tkinter provides a way to interact with the application. The user presses a button to perform certain actions that are attached to that button. In general, we user provides a single action to a button but what if the user wants to attach more than one action to a button.
In this article, we are going to see how we can bind more than one action/command to a single button.
To create a button in Tkinter please follow the below syntax.
Syntax: Button(master, text=”Button”, command=function, options, ...)
Parameters:
master: refers to the top-level window in which button is placed
text: Text to show button
command: An action which will be called on button pressThere are other options as well but they are rarely used.
compound: To show both image and text
image: To show image
pady: To provide vertical padding
padx: To provide horizontal padding
Method 1: By using the lambda function and list
In this method, we are going to pass a list of functions to lambda, and then that lambda will be passed to command.
Python3
# Import tkinter and Button Widgetfrom tkinter import Tkfrom tkinter.ttk import Button    # Demo function 1def fun1():    print("Function 1")    # Demo function 2def fun2():    print("Function 2")    if __name__ == "__main__":    # Creating top-level window    master = Tk()      # Setting window title    master.title("Bind multiple function to Button")      # Setting window Dimensions    master.geometry("400x250")      # Creating a button with more than one command using lambda    button = Button(master, text="Button", command=lambda: [fun1(), fun2()])      # Attaching button to the top-level window    # Always remember to attach your widgets to the top-level    button.pack()      # Mainloop that will run forever    master.mainloop()
Output:
Method 2: By creating our own generic function that will call functions for us.
Python3
# Import tkinter and Button Widgetfrom tkinter import Tkfrom tkinter.ttk import Button  # funcs parameter will have the reference# of all the functions that are passed as arguments i.e "fun1" and "fun2"def combine_funcs(*funcs):      # this function will call the passed functions    # with the arguments that are passed to the functions    def inner_combined_func(*args, **kwargs):        for f in funcs:              # Calling functions with arguments, if any            f(*args, **kwargs)      # returning the reference of inner_combined_func    # this reference will have the called result of all    # the functions that are passed to the combined_funcs    return inner_combined_func  # Demo function 1def fun1():    print("Function 1")  # Demo function 2def fun2():    print("Function 2")  if __name__ == "__main__":    # Creating top-level window    master = Tk()      # Setting window title    master.title("Bind multiple function to Button")      # Setting window Dimensions    master.geometry("400x250")      # Creating a button with more than one    # command our own generic function    button = Button(master, text="Button",                     command=combine_funcs(fun1, fun2))      # Attaching button to the top-level window    # Always remember to attach your widgets to the top-level    button.pack()      # Mainloop that will run forever    master.mainloop()
In the above method, you may be wondering how we are going to pass arguments to fun1 and fun2 because if we do the following
combine_funcs(fun1(arguments), fun2(arguments))
It will immediately call the functions as soon as the application runs, but we want that these functions should be called only when the button is pressed. So the answer is simple if you want to pass arguments to fun1 or fun2 use the below syntax:
combine_funcs(lambda: fun1(arguments), lambda: fun2(arguments))
Let see the below example where we actually have parameters to fun1 and fun2.
Python3
# Import tkinter and Button Widgetfrom tkinter import Tkfrom tkinter.ttk import Button  # funcs parameter will have the reference# of all the functions that are # passed as arguments i.e "fun1" and "fun2"def combine_funcs(*funcs):      # this function will call the passed functions    # with the arguments that are passed to the functions    def inner_combined_func(*args, **kwargs):        for f in funcs:              # Calling functions with arguments, if any            f(*args, **kwargs)      # returning the reference of inner_combined_func    # this reference will have the called result of all    # the functions that are passed to the combined_funcs    return inner_combined_func    # Demo function 1 with paramsdef fun1(param):    print("Function 1 {}".format(param))    # Demo function 2 with paramsdef fun2(param):    print("Function 2 {}".format(param))    if __name__ == "__main__":    # Creating top-level window    master = Tk()      # Setting window title    master.title("Bind multiple function to Button")      # Setting window Dimensions    master.geometry("400x250")      # Creating a button with more than    # one command our own generic function    button = Button(master,                    text="Button",                                          # Passing arguments to "fun1" and "fun2"                    command=combine_funcs(lambda: fun1("Function 1 PARAM"),                                          lambda: fun2("Function 2 PARAM")))      # Attaching button to the top-level window    # Always remember to attach your widgets to the top-level    button.pack()      # Mainloop that will run forever    master.mainloop()
Output:
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