Container Slots & Children

Most items can have child items. Items can only be children to valid container items. Some related commands can be found below:

is_item_container

checks if an item is a container type

get_item_slot

returns the item’s slot

get_item_parent

returns the item’s parent UUID

get_item_children

returns an item’s children

reorder_items

reorders children in a single call

move_item_up

moves an item up within its slot

move_item_down

moves an item down within its slot

move_item

moves an item between containers

set_item_children

unstaging a stage into an item’s children slot

Slots

Items are stored in target slots within their parent container. Below is the breakdown of slots:

Slot 0:

mvFileExtension, mvFontRangeHint, mvNodeLink, mvAnnotation, mvDragLine, mvDragRect, mvDragPoint, mvLegend, mvTableColumn

Slot 1:

Most items

Slot 2:

Draw items

Slot 3:

mvDragPayload

To query what slot an item belongs to, use get_item_slot.

Basic Example

Below is a simple example that demonstrates some of the above:

import dearpygui.dearpygui as dpg

dpg.create_context()

with dpg.window(label="about", width=400, height=400):
    dpg.add_button(label="Press me")
    dpg.draw_line((0, 10), (100, 100), color=(255, 0, 0, 255), thickness=1)

# print children
print(dpg.get_item_children(dpg.last_root()))

# print children in slot 1
print(dpg.get_item_children(dpg.last_root(), 1))

# check draw_line's slot
print(dpg.get_item_slot(dpg.last_item()))

dpg.create_viewport(title='Custom Title', width=800, height=600)
dpg.setup_dearpygui()
dpg.show_viewport()
dpg.start_dearpygui()
dpg.destroy_context()

Note

Use the slot keyword with get_item_children to return just a specific slot.

Note

Use the slot and children_only keywords with delete_item to delete a specific slot of children from a parent.