RE: Scrolling a window

Didn't understand the comment about g_grid.  Can you use just g_grid in
the example you posted?  I can't get it to work if $sw->g_pack(....)
isn't used. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hobbs [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 6:14 PM
To: Swingle David-QWHM86
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Scrolling a window

On 02/03/2010 3:05 PM, Swingle David-QWHM86 wrote:
>> Yes, that indicates you are using an 8.4-based Tk.
>> We now ship with an 8.5-based Tk, where the 'tile' extension was 
>> added to the core.
>> This added the native themed widgets, as well as combobox, notebook, 
>> sizegrip and a few other new widgets.
>
> I have new_ttk__combobox in my script, so does that mean I have more 
> than 8.4?  How do I get the version?  Perl -v or Perl -V doesn't show 
> the Tk version.

You must have the 'tile' package in use.  We provide the tkkit version
details in the 'tkkit'

> Something I just discovered that might help others.  After going thru 
> the great tutorial at www.tkdocs.com/tutorial, I've been using 
> g_grid() instead of g_pack().  But, when I did this for my script, the

> scroll bars didn't resize past the size that the window started at.  
> In other words, if I stretched the window, the scroll bars were left
behind.
> After comparing your script with what I have in mine, I realized that 
> you use g_pack when creating the new_ScrolledWindow ($sw in your 
> example).  If I change your script example to have $sw->g_grid(-column

> =>  0, -row =>  0, -sticky =>  "nsew") instead of $sw->g_pack(....), 
> it doesn't work correctly.  Is there a way to use g_grid throughout?

Yes, and I would recommend g_grid.  You have to use grid
column/rowconfigure to get the fine-grained weighting (stretching)
control, e.g.:

Tkx::grid(rowconfigure => $mw, 1, -weight => 1);
Tkx::grid(columnconfigure => $mw, 0, -weight => 1);

Will stretch all items in row 1 vertically, and all items in col 0
horizontally.

Jeff