Scrollable window?

[rameshbhats]

Hi All,

I am failrly new to TCL/TK. But I am trying something like this:
I have a file with following data:
John
David
Ken
Henry

I want to read above file & create label, entry widgets like in following way against each name mentioned in above file:
Name:<show name using label widget> Past experience:<Entry form using entry widget>

Finally a button widget to save all the entry entered.

I am trying in following way:
Read the file, & store names in a list
& using for loop, first create a frame, then create label, entry widget & pack in the frame

So there will be one frame per name.

The above way of impelementation worked so far.

But when the number of names increased, the window hieght is long & I am not able to see all the names. So I thought of putting scolling facility But so far I am not able to find(understood) a easy way. Can any body please suggest?

Thanks in advance
Ramesh

 

[Bong]

In just straight Tk, there is no scrollable window. I use a textbox, with scrollbars, and put everything inside that. Alternatively, the Bwidgets package has both a "scrollableFrame" and a "scrolledWindow" widget.

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Bob Rashkin

 

[rameshbhats]

Hi Bong,

Thans for reply, can I put widgets like label & entry inside textbox?

Regards
Ramesh

 

[Bong]

Yes, you can. If you loaded Tcl from ActiveState (maybe otherwise, too) you should have the Tk Demos. The one called "A text widget with embedded windows and other features" shows this nicely. The basic idea is that once the text widget is packed, it's essentially just like a frame.

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Bob Rashkin

 

[rameshbhats]

Thanks for the information. I will try to understand it and come back