How do you create a Button on a tkinter Canvas?

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The Tkinter pack manager tries to resize the parent widget to the correct size to contain its child widgets, and no larger, by default. So the canvas is there – but it’s precisely the same size as the button, and thus invisible.

If you want to place a widget on a canvas without causing the canvas to dynamically resize, you want the Canvas.create_window() function:

# ... snip ...
button1 = Button(self, text = "Quit", command = self.quit, anchor = W)
button1.configure(width = 10, activebackground = "#33B5E5", relief = FLAT)
button1_window = canvas1.create_window(10, 10, anchor=NW, window=button1)

This will create your button with upper-left corner at (10, 10) relative to the canvas, without resizing the canvas itself.

Note that you could replace the window argument with a reference to any other Tkinter widget. One caveat, though: the named widget must be a child of the top-level window that contains the canvas, or a child of some widget located in the same top-level window.

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