"Ask" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi TIm, > >Ahh I see.. (Told you I was a newby!) ;-) > >Tkinter is what I'm using as that was loaded by default with the >installation of Python I am using.
Now your question makes good sense, especially if you were coming from something like the Win32 API. In Tkinter, as in MOST of the GUI toolkits for Python, you dont just place a widget at a specific X,Y with a specific width and height. The problems with that kind of approach are well known; such layouts don't scale with different fonts, they look bad when the owning window is stretched, they don't compensate for screen sizes, etc. The various toolkits have different methods for managing this. In Tk, the concept is called a "geometry manager". You use a geometry manager to define the RELATIONSHIP between widgets, and between the widgets and the owning window. The geometry manager, then, worries about the exact placement and size. Googling for "tkinter geometry manager" should prove fruitful. Here is an excellent introduction: http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-geometry.htm There is a fabulous book called "Python and Tkinter Programming" by John Grayson, ISBN 1884777813. If you will be getting serious with Tkinter, I strongly recommend it. Personally, I started with Tkinter, but I couldn't wrap my brain around the details. I switched to wxPython, and never looked back. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
