Need help with Tk problem...

[Fredrik Lundh]

Sven Drescher <Sven.Drescher at dlr.de> wrote:
> I need a little Tk feature for my GUI, but I don't know how to do the
> following. I looked for it in Deja and FAQs but nothing found.
> 
> I want to get the current size of an widget, e.g. Tkinter.Frame()
> 
> I know the options geometry, width and height. But if the frame grows or
> shrinks, these options don't change. What did I wrong? Is there an other
> function to get the current size???

reading the fine manual might help; go to

http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/basic-widget-methods.htm
-> window related information

and look for winfo_width() and winfo_height()
(also see reqwidth/reqheight)

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