Two Tkinter questions

[Mike Callahan]

Thanks Rune. You answered both questions.

"Rune Hansen" <rune.hansen at vivenus.no> wrote in message
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> Hello Mike,
>
> Q1:
> To make a grid widget behave like when packed you'll have to use column
and
> row configure.
> --
> label = Label(frame,text="Text")
>
> label.grid(row=0,column=0,sticky=N+E+S+W)
> frame.rowconfigure(0,weight=1)
> frame.columconfigure(0,weight=1)
> --
> This will make the widget use the maximum vailible space in the frame.
>
>
> Q2:
> A bit more tricky. I've adaped this code from MCScrolledListBox.py,v 1.3
> written by Dough Hellman. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmwcontribd/)
> Helmanns code is much more complete, but I also does some stuff i didn't
> want(like list headers and the selection spanning the lists).
> My example is rather verbose, I found it easier than to strip my code..
> --
> #Scrolled lists
> [class definition]
>
> # Initialize a list for "list"
> self.lists=[]
>
> #Create the scrollbar
> self.scrollbar = Scrollbar(self.frame, orient=VERTICAL)
>
> #Create three lists
> self.list1 = Listbox(self.frame,
>                      bd=0,
>                      highlightcolor="white",
>                      highlightthickness=0,
>                      fg="red",
>                      bg="white",
>                      width=5,
>                      yscrollcommand=self._yset
>                      )
> self.lists.append(self.list1)
> self.list2 = Listbox(self.frame,
>                      bd=0,
>                      highlightcolor="white",
>                      highlightthickness=0,
>                      fg="#9CC6CD",
>                      bg="white",
>                      width=1,
>                      yscrollcommand=self._yset
>                      )
> self.lists.append(self.list2)
> self.list3 = Listbox(self.frame,
>                      bd=0,
>                      highlightcolor="white",
>                      highlightthickness=0,
>                      fg="black",
>                      bg="white",
>                      yscrollcommand=self._yset
>                      )
> self.lists.append(self.list3)
>
> # Bind selection command to list3.
> self.list3.bind("<ButtonRelease-1>",self.selectHandler)
> self.list3.bind("<Key-space>",self.self.selectHandler)
> self.list3.bind("<Key-Return>",self.selectHandler)
>
> # Configure scrollbar
> self.scrollbar.config(command=self._yview)
>
> # Grid the lists and scrollbar
> self.list1.grid(row=0,column=0,sticky=W)
> self.list2.grid(row=0,column=1,sticky=W)
> self.list3.grid(row=0,column=2,sticky=N+E+S+W)
> self.scrollbar.grid(row=0,column=3,sticky=N+S)
>
> # Make list3 expand the amount of availible space in the frame
> self.frame.rowconfigure(0, weight = 1)
> self.frame.columnconfigure(2, weight = 1)
>
> .
> .
> .
>
> def selectHandler(self):
>         # ...
>         pass
> # These functions are unchanged from Hellmans example
> def _yset(self, *args):
>     #print '_yset', args
>     apply(self.scrollbar.set, args)
>     for lb in self.lists:
>         lb.yview_moveto(args[0])
>     return
>
> def _yview(self, *args):
>     for lb in self.lists:
>         apply(lb.yview, args)
>     return
> --
> This will make the lists scroll in unison even when using the mousewheel
:-)
> With a bit focus() tinkering this also works on Windows.
>
>
> regards
>
> /rune
>
> Mike Callahan wrote:
>
> > Question #1
> >
> > I want a text widget to completely fill its space. I can do this in
> > tkinter using the pack geometery manager:
> > text.pack(fill='both', expand=1)
> > If I resize the window, the the text widget continues to fill the
window,
> > however if I use grid:
> > text.grid(sticky='nsew')
> > the text widget stays the same size if I make the window larger. Can't
> > grid do the same thing that pack can do?
> >
> > Question #2
> >
> > I want to make a horizontal scroll bar scroll two text widgets at the
same
> > time. I know how to connect a scrollbar to a text widget, but is there a
> > way to connect one scrollbar to two widgets?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike Callahan
>
>