"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Some time has passed and I've made some progress. My question now is > about the placement of buttons. ... > one, but I can't get the layout I want, which is the Label on top of > the Entry, then a row of the first 3 buttons (which respectively > trigger 3 different computations on the integer the user enters). > Then below that, the Exit button, with the Text widget at the > bottom.
Sounds like 4 frames to me: 1 Frame for the outer 'skin', packed with fill for both X and Y. 1 frame for the label/entry combo, using pack to position the widgets inside the frame, then pack the frame inside the outer frame 1 frame for the row of buttons and I'd use grid to position the buttons insdide the frame and then pack the frame into the outer frame (I tend to use grid where I'm positioning things horizontally and pack when i'm doing it vertiacally. So I divide my GUI into horizontal layers and then use grid inside teach layer for horizontally laid out widgets) 1 frame for the bottom exit button and pack it into the outer. > How to do this? Is it impossible with the pack() method? Horizontal layouts are possible using pack, take a look at the GUI topic and the GUI section of the Case Study topic in my tutor for examples of using pure pack. But IMHO grid is easier for horizontal sets. Mixing layout styles in a GUI is fine provided you keep each layout in a frame to itself. HTH -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
