Re: ================================================================ Next, if I try to pack ANYTHING inside rightframe, it shrinks down to size and totally distorts my screen dimensions. Here is the exact same code, adding a label widget in self.rightframe. It completely shrinks rightframe and distorts the screen dimensions. Does my question make sense now? ================================================================
Maybe "Thinking in Tkinter" can shed some light on your situation... ================================================================ tt095.py Sizing windows can be a frustrating experience when working with Tkinter. Imagine this situation. You believe in iterative development, so first you carefully lay out a frame with the height and width specification that you want. You test it and you see that it works. Then you move on to the next step, and add some buttons to the frame. You test it again, but now to your surprise Tkinter is acting as if there were no "height" and "width" specifications for the frame, and the frame has snapped down to tightly encase the buttons. What's going on ???!!! Well, the packer's behavior is inconsistent. Or, shall we say: the packer's behavior depends on a lot of situational factors. The bottom line is that the packer will honor the size request of a container if the container is empty, but if the container contains any other widgets, then the elastic nature of the container comes to the fore -- the "height" and "width" settings for the container are ignored, and the size of the container is adjusted to enclose the widgets as closely as possible. The bottom line is that you really cannot control the size of a container that contains widgets. What you CAN control is the the initial size of the entire root window, and you do this with the Window Manager "geometry" option. <more discussion follows> ================================================================ see... http://www.ferg.org/thinking_in_tkinter/all_programs.html and more generally... http://www.ferg.org/thinking_in_tkinter/index.html -- Steve Ferg _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
