"Pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to place a dialog in the center of the screen based on a users > screen resolution. I can get the width and height of the screen, but I can't > seem to use the following: > > root.geometry('WxH+X+Y') > > It appears the values for X and Y need to be integers and not a variable > like width/2-40
Python doesn't look in string literals for things that might look like expressions, but if you have the values, *creating* a string with the right contents is pretty easy. see the tutorial for the basics: http://docs.python.org/tut/node9.html if you have all the values in variables, this expression sets the geometry in one step: root.geometry("%dx%d%+d%+d" % (width, height, xoffset, yoffset)) also see http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/wm.htm#Tkinter.Wm.geometry-method which includes code that parses a geometry string. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list