Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-04-02 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Yes, thanks, Something for another time and application. W W wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Wayne Watson wrote: Alan, the game changed in the thread you branched away from to other considerations. As stated there, I've th

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-04-02 Thread W W
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Wayne Watson wrote: > Alan, the game changed in the thread you branched away from to other > considerations. As stated there, I've thrown in the towel, but first let me > say what the game was about. Here's the simplest example. Say I have four > labels: small, bi

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-04-01 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Alan, the game changed in the thread you branched away from to other considerations. As stated there, I've thrown in the towel, but first let me say what the game was about. Here's the simplest example. Say I have four labels: small, big, house, cat, tree, and I want to pu

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-04-01 Thread Alan Gauld
"W W" wrote Good news... I got it! Here's something that's often a good idea when debugging overlapping layouts (especially when you didn't design the parent!) - use different backgrounds! Yes, or for Frames use a relief value to see where the frame bounds are. Here's my changes (also f

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-03-30 Thread W W
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Wayne Watson wrote: > I'm looking at the NM Tech Tkinter ref, pages 5-6, on the grid > method. See pages 84-88 of Lundh. Nothing. It does not show that method. > Search of the pdf doc shows nothing. Are these sources too old? effbot does > have it. Yes, it's pretty

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-03-30 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html I'm tossing in the towel on this one. I have an acceptable way to put in a few lines like: Latitude BOX   Longitude BOX Instead of prototyping it separately from the main program, I just went directly to the author's code, and put the lines in the common style he used. It

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-03-29 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html W W wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Wayne Watson wrote: Hi, that's an interesting way to look at it. Actually, I was about to probe the color idea myself, but needed to better understand how to achieve it. Where did grid_c

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-03-28 Thread W W
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Wayne Watson wrote: > Hi, that's an interesting way to look at it. Actually, I was about to > probe the color idea myself, but needed to better understand how to achieve > it. Where did grid_columnconfigure(3, weight=1) come from? I don't recall > seeing that with

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-03-28 Thread Wayne Watson
Hi, that's an interesting way to look at it. Actually, I was about to probe the color idea myself, but needed to better understand how to achieve it. Where did grid_columnconfigure(3, weight=1) come from? I don't recall seeing that with Frame. Grid has columnconfigure. I started down that path

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-03-28 Thread W W
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Wayne Watson wrote: > It's very difficult to tell. I've tried it. > fLocation=Frame(master) > fLocation.pack(side=LEFT) > I need to size the fLocation frame to make it big. As it is, it must be > giving the smallest possible size. > > I tried this

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-03-27 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html It's very difficult to tell. I've tried it.     fLocation=Frame(master)     fLocation.pack(side=LEFT) I need to size the fLocation frame to make it big. As it is, it must be giving the smallest possible size. I tried this         fLocation.pack(expand=YES,fill=B

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-03-27 Thread Alan Gauld
Try packing the frame to the left and set it to expand. HTH, Going on vacation Bye Alan G. "Wayne Watson" wrote in message news:49cd0d40.5090...@sbcglobal.net... Signature.htmlThe code below is clearly not shifting the contents of the frame to the left. It's supposed to look like

Re: [Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-03-27 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Correction. The size of the button is interfering with positioning here. I'm pretty sure that if the frame size is set to a large value, width, in particular, then the entry of four columns will not be adjusted to the left, but will appear centered. The point is that I wan

[Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

2009-03-27 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html The code below is clearly not shifting the contents of the frame to the left. It's supposed to look like   Geographic Location Latitude BOX  Longitude BOX OK Cancel but instead looks like:   Geographic Location    Latitude