Tkinter canvas size determination
Dean Allen Provins
dprovins at rpcl.com
Wed Feb 22 14:00:38 EST 2006
Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <43FC9532.2050800 at rpcl.com>,
> Dean Allen Provins <dprovins at rpcl.com> wrote:
>
>>I need to determine the size of a canvas while the process is running.
>>Does anyone know of a technique that will let me do that?
>
> .
> .
> .
> Does
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>> c = Tkinter.Canvas()
> >>> c.create_oval(13, 51, 80, 130)
> 1
> >>> c.pack()
> >>> print c.cget("width")
> 284
> help?
>
> There are actually several different notions of the size of a
> canvas. The example abovve should be a good starting point,
> though.
>
> There's also a mailing list specifically for Tkinter <URL:
> http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/mailing_20lists >; that
> might interest you.
Your suggestion helps immensely. I missed it in Shipman's Tkinter
reference. And thank you for the mail list reference. I'll pursue it.
Regards,
Dean
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