Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module T218. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in Tcl, Tcl/Tk, Tcl Programming

A Tk Graphic User Interface comprises a number of component elements known as widgets. Geometry managers allow the programmer to control the layout of the widgets within the windows, and to specify how the layout is to be changed should the widgets be of uneven size or if the window is resized.

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1470	fill and expand on Tcl/Tk pack command pack .this .that -expand true -fill both Why are there two different options expand and fill? Are they both needed? expand causes a widget to expand to fill the space available as a window is stretched, and fill causes a widget to be filled to the cell so that it lines up with other widgets. In ...	2007-12-13
1340	Tk locks up - 100% c.p.u. on a simple program (Tcl, Perl, Python) Fighting packs and grids - Tk under Tcl, Perl, Python You'll use pack OR grid to place components into your frame in a Tcl/Tk application. You may use both pack and grid within the same program, but NOT within the same frame. If you do, not only will you be writing code that has no clear meaning, ...	2007-09-11
1335	Expanding a grid - Tcl/Tk Have you ever tried to fill or expand a grid in Tcl/Tk to fill the available space left by wider or taller widgets to the die, or when the window expands, and got results like those I have posted here? Disappointing results, aren't they? And I appear to have done all that I should in the source too: label ...	2007-09-07
787	Tk - laying out your GUI with frames, pack and grid Using Tk (in Tcl or in Perl), you create a number of components that you want to display as part of your GUI (Graphic User Interface) using commands such as button, label and canvas. These components are known as widgets. Once you've created your widgets, you need to use a geometry manager to tell ...	2006-06-30
212	Tcl/Tk (wish) Grid layout example "You can acheive in 20 lines of Tcl/Tk something that would take twice that using another GUI system." That claim might be a bit aggressive, but here is a tiny Tcl/Tk example to lay out a numeric data entry pad, allow it to stretch, and also provide an example of upvar (always worth providing an example ...	2006-06-05

numpad	Laying out a numeric keypad on a grid
tk_l2	Grid geometry manager, showing cell size via colour
tk_l3	Grid geometry manager, expanding cells via -sticky news
tk_l4	Grid geometry manager - column weights to control resize behaviour
tk_log	Grid geometry manager - first example
tk_wh2	Grid geometry manager - cells spanning multiple rows and columns
tk_wh3	An example of the place geometry manager in use
tk_which	Grid geometry manager, using -rowspan and -columnspan