I've got a bunch of Frames, all packed into the root window with side=TOP, and in each Frame I've got a Checkbutton packed with side=LEFT. I expected the Checkbuttons to be flush with the left edge of the window, but they're not, and it looks a little gross. How do I get them to align?
The standard behaviour for frames is to adapt to their contents, and packing them with side=TOP without any other option will center them in their container.
So you have a few solutions to your problem:
- use the anchor option when packing the frames; setting anchor=W should do what you want
- use fill=X when packing the frames, as Harold said. This expands the frame to the whole width of its container, so this should align the check-buttons (if it doesn't work, add the option expand=1 to force the frame to be wider than its contents)
A silly question BTW: why do you use frames? If you have only check-buttons in them, you do not need them:
from Tkinter import * root = Tk() for i in range(0, 101, 20): b = Checkbutton(root, text='Option %s' % i) b.pack(side=TOP, anchor=W) root.mainloop()
HTH -- - Eric Brunel <eric (underscore) brunel (at) despammed (dot) com> - PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - http://www.pragmadev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
