Re: Scrolling a window

On 2010-03-03, at 1:24 PM, Swingle David-QWHM86 wrote:
>> You aren't asking the right widgets for the info.  Simply add 
>> this before the MainLoop:
>> 
>> Tkx::update('idletasks');
>> Tkx::wm_geometry($mw, Tkx::winfo_reqwidth($subf) . "x" .
>> 		 Tkx::winfo_reqheight($subf));
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
> 
> Ok, that works, almost.  Thanks!  What I would really like is for the
> window to have no scrollbars when it is initially created.  Only if I
> shrink the window would I want the scrollbars.  Is there a way to do
> that?

Pass -managed => 0 option to ScrolledWindow.

> I've never seen Tkx::update('idletasks'), where in the documentation
> would I find that?

In the general Tk docs.

> Is there a difference between Tkx::winfo_reqwidth($subf) and
> Tkx::winfo('reqwidth', $subf)?  They both seem to work, is this just
> "there's more than one way to do it"?

Yes, you can see some of this discussed in the perldoc of Tcl or Tkx.

Jeff