Tkinter: creating a scrolling canvas that contains widows (Frame widgets)

[Robert Roy]

Save yourself a lot of work and download Pmw. Among other wonderful
things, it has a scrolled frame class that sounds like it will de
everything you need.

The url is:
http://www.dscpl.com.au/pmw/

Bob

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:02:56 GMT, "Kevin Cazabon" <kcazabon at home.com>
wrote:

>I've been trying to create a class that I can use to place Frame() widgets
>into a scrolling 'container'.
>
>Basically, I want a master "Frame" that has a Y scroll bar (and maybe X as
>well).  In this frame, I want to be able to add sub-frames (any number).  If
>all of these frames won't fit, I want to be able to scroll the master Frame
>as necessary.
>
>The only suitable Tkinter class for the Master I can find is the Canvas
>widget.  I have no problem creating this, and adding windows to it using
>canvas.create_window(x,y, window=mywidget), but have had a heck of a time
>getting it to scroll properly, especially when the user resizes the overall
>master frame.
>
>This may sound complicated, but it really isn't... just the implementation
>might be!
>
>Any suggestions, or if you can point me to an exapmle that might help (like
>the ScrolledText widget, which is very similar to what I need, kindof...), I
>would greatly appreciate it.
>
>Kevin Cazabon
>kcazabon at home.com
>
>