[Tutor] Pmw/Tkinter question

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:19:55 -0500
> From: robertvstepp at gmail.com
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Pmw/Tkinter question
> 
> I just cannot leave this problem alone; however, I *do* believe I have
> found the correct way to do what Albert-Jan desires within the
> publicly accessible features of Pmw and Tkinter.  I looked at the Pmw
> documentation online at
> 
> http://pmw.sourceforge.net/doc/OptionMenu.html
> 
> and it said:
> 
> <quote>
> menubutton
> 
> The menu button displaying the currently selected value. By default,
> this component is a Tkinter.Menubutton.
> </quote>
> 
> So I looked up Tkinter.Menubutton next in one of my books and it has
> the desired anchor option.  So if we add
> 
>  menubutton_anchor = 'w'
> 
> in the appropriate place, then I get the desired alignment.  BTW, this
> fits in with Peter's suggestion.  It just needs to be using the normal
> Pmw/Tkinter machinery:

Thanks, you're right! After the line:
        self.vege_menu.grid(row=1, column=0, sticky = 'w', padx = 10, pady = 10)

either one of the following lines does the trick:
        self.vege_menu.configure(menubutton_anchor=Tkinter.W)
        #self.vege_menu.configure(menubutton_anchor=' w')
        #self.vege_menu._menubutton.config(anchor=Tkinter.W)

This does not work, however:
        self.vege_menu.grid(row=1, column=0, sticky = 'w', padx = 10, pady = 10, menubutton_anchor=Tkinter.W)

I tested this on debian linux jessie, with Python 2.7 (it turned out that I incorrectly compiled 3.5, no _tkinter)

Best wishes,
Albert-Jan