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Home > Forums > Programmers > Languages > Tcl/Tk Forum

Noob question about buttons

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clavelli (Programmer)

14 Jul 12 3:47

Sorry to ask such a simple question, but I seem to be unable to change the height of any buttons, whether I am using grid, pack or place. I am going through a book, and even when a copy the code in the book, the height won't change. The book is from 1998, so it's possible that that is the issue. Anyway...
Here is a short sample using place:

button .exit -text "Exit" -command exit
place .exit -relx 0.5 -rely 0.5 -anchor c -relwidth 0.8 -relheight 0.8

And it comes out with a button that stretches through most of the window in the x direction, but has normal height in the y direction. Same issue in pack and grid.

Thank you all!

Bong (Programmer)

16 Jul 12 10:05

I do it (with pack) using "configure" on the widget, not the geometry:

CODE -->

% button .exit -text "Exit" -command exit
.exit
() 2 % pack .exit
() 3 % .exit configure -width 12
() 4 % .exit configure -width 10
() 5 % .exit configure -height 12
() 6 %

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Bob Rashkin

Bong (Programmer)

16 Jul 12 10:07

Actually, I meant to say, "using pack in this example". Obviously, the geometry manager doesn't matter since I'm configuring the widget, itself.

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clavelli (Programmer)

16 Jul 12 14:18

I did that, and it didn't work. could it be because I am using a Mac? Everything works fine on my other Windows computer, but I don't know what's up here.

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