tkinter docs?

[Greg McFarlane]

On 11 May, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> For a Pmw.ScrolledText widget, you want to specify the width or height
> of the 'text' component of the composite widget.  To do that, you can
> set the attribute of the text component during creation or through a
> configure call to the composite with the syntax:
> 
> 	widget.configure(<component>_<attribute>=<value>)
> 
> For example:
> 
> 	myScrolledText.configure(text_height=15)
> 
> will give you a 15 line high scrolled text area.  This syntax becomes
> *really* fun when you start creating composite widgets made up of other
> composite widgets.

Pmw has aliases which simplifies access to sub-sub-sub-components. 

For example, a
    Pmw.ComboBoxDialog megawidget contains a
	Pmw.ComboBox megawidget which in turn contains a
	    Pmw.ScrolledListBox megawidget which contains a
		Tkinter.Listbox widget.

You can configure the Tkinter.Listbox widget using any of the
following:

    dlg = Pmw.ComboBoxDialog()

    # Using chained component() methods:
    dlg.component('combobox').component('scrolledlist').\
	component('listbox').configure(height = 15)

    # Using full component name:
    dlg.configure(combobox_scrolledlist_listbox_height = 15)

    # Using component alias:
    dlg.configure(listbox_height = 15)

The aliases for each megawidget are given in the Pmw manual pages.

Pmw:
    http://www.dscpl.com.au/pmw/

-- 
Greg McFarlane
INMS Telstra Australia (gregm at iname.com)