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TorgoX (1933)

TorgoX
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Journal of TorgoX (1933)

Wednesday April 09, 2003
10:50 PM

In Tk Hell

[ #11565 ]
Dear All,

I am bewildered by Tk -- in general, but also with this specific problem:

So I make some widgets. If I change that if(1) to if(0), and just throw them into the mainwindow, all is well and the window magically appears sized to the right size.

But since I want to be able to deal with cases where there are too many widgets for the window to even fit the screen, I use a Pane object (so make the if(0) an if(1)), I have a new problem: the window starts too small. Sure, I can resize it manually. But how do I make its initial size be the right size, if possible?

Tk is making me sad!


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  • See the geometry() method.
    • Yeah, I've seen the geometry() method -- I don't see how to make it be "just the right size" the way it normally would be without that Pack thingamajigger.

      • Wow! What a funny happenstance of your comment and the random (as in I Ching) Larry Wall quote that I was just served up:


        What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwords? :-)

        --Larry Wall in <8162@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>

      • Oh, I see what you mean. Here's your code, revamped by me (plus an "exit" button). This work like you want?

        use strict;
        use Tk;
        use Tk::Pane;

        my $main = MainWindow->new;

        my($container, $pane);

        $pane = $main->Scrolled('Pane',
           -scrollbars => 'osoe',
           -sticky     => 'nsew',
           -gridded    => 'y'
        );
        $pane->pack(-fill => 'both', -expand => 1,);

        my $width = 0;
        my $height = 0;

        for(0 .. 10) {
           my $label  = $pane->Label(

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