Pmw Megawidgets 0.8.5 - EntryField

[Sean]

Thanks.  It turns out to be one line more complicated than you
said.  The default settings in PMW for the grid used to place 
the label and the entry field are (sticky = "nsew").  It's this
that stretches all the fields *even*if*you*set*the*width*!!!

My code now looks like this (and it works as expected):

_e = Pmw.EntryField(Master,
                  labelpos = 'w',
                  label_text = f[0],
                  label_width = 12,
                  value = '2001/02/28',
                  validate = {'validator' : 'date', 'format' : 'ymd'},
                  )
_e._entryFieldEntry.grid( sticky = 'w' ) # Overwrite Pmw default
'nsew'
_e._entryFieldEntry.config( width = ( f[2] + 2 ) )   # Set width

Thanks again.

Sean
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bernie wrote:
> 
> Sean wrote:
> 
> > In this fragment (creating a date-type EntryField), I have used
> > the undocumented - in Pmw - paramater 'label_width' successfully:
> >
> > _e = Pmw.EntryField(Master,
> >                     labelpos = 'w',
> >                     label_text = f[0],
> >                     label_width = 12,
> >                     value = f[4][0:4] + '/' + f[4][4:6] + '/' + f[4][6:8],
> >                     validate = {'validator' : 'date', 'format' : 'ymd' },
> >                     )
> >
> > *** [Q] Is there any way to control the width of the underlying Entry
> > widget?
> >
> 
> _e._entryFieldEntry.config( width = <what you need>)

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