Peter Milliken wrote: > I have an application which uses the grid layout manager. One of my > widgets can grow (and shrink) in width as various events in the > application occur. > > Is there anyway to determine the width of the widget in terms of the > column width that the grid manager determines? i.e. the grid manager > calculates a column width based on the widgets placed in it - I would > like to determine if the "new" width of the widget (as it grows/shrinks) > requires a columnspan value or not and if it does, then how many columns > should it span? > > At the moment, as the width of the widget gets larger than the column > size allocated in the "other" columns, it makes the widgets in the same > column (but different rows) look untidy because that "column" is a > different size to the others (the "other" widgets are of a uniform size > - it is just this one widget that grows/shrinks that is out of play in > the grid/table layout). > > Hope this is understandable :-) > > Peter
Peter, Not 100% sure I follow everything you're saying ;) Take a look at the winfo_reqheight and winfo_reqwidth methods you may have to call update_idletasks before calling them so they are 'up to date' There may also be some grid_ methods that can help, but I normally only use pack so I'm afraid I can't be more specific Martin -- signature file not found, must be something I ate _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
