Re: tkinter: tk.grid columnspan [RESOLVED]

2019-06-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, Terry Reedy wrote: If you use IDLE, it is easy to experiment with tkinter, because the IDLE execution process runs a hidden tkinter update loop. Enter a statement adding or changing a widget, and it takes effect immediately. Terry, I use emacs. I did not provide the code

Re: tkinter: tk.grid columnspan

2019-06-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/5/2019 10:55 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I've used wxPython for years and decided that for my new projects I'd use tkinter. I have the impression it is easier when users run MacOS and Windoze rather than linux. Perhaps not, but there are aspects of wxPython that wore me out. I find tkinter ea

Re: tkinter: tk.grid columnspan

2019-06-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: With only those two fields as the only thing defined in the grid sizer, than there are only two columns in the grid, and nothing in which to "span" a field. Dennis, Makes sense to me. My antique Tkinter book is in storage a mile a

Re: tkinter: tk.grid columnspan

2019-06-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Terry Reedy wrote: Unless you specifiy otherwise through expand and weight options, grid columns are the minimum width required for the widest minimum width of any widget in the column. The columnspan makes the minimum width of 'description' the minimum width of column 1 p

Re: tkinter: tk.grid columnspan

2019-06-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/5/2019 4:45 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: In one row of a grid layout I have these two input widgets: self.inputs['name'] = LabelInput(     self, 'Site Name',     input_var=tk.StringVar(),     )     self.inputs['name'].grid(sticky=tk.W, row=0, column=0)