resizing Tkinter widgets

[Thomas Lane]

I think I found a solution to my own problem. I was able to call the
"place_forget" method and then "place" them again to alter
position/size. Someone correct me if this is not the right way to do it,
but for now, that's what I'll do since it works.

Thomas Lane

Thomas Lane wrote:
> 
> I'm a newbie to Tkinter, so please forgive me if I've missed something
> obvious, but I'm trying to resize widgets, such as frames, lists, etc.
> at run-time when a window is resized. I've bound a method to the
> <Configure> event, and it gets called when the window is resized, but
> when I call the methods to resize the widgets, nothing happens, ie. I
> call widget.configure( width="XXX", height="YYY" ), but the size of
> widget remains the same. I'm using the "Place" geometry manager, if that
> makes any difference. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Thomas Lane
> Parlant Technology
> Provo, UT
> tom at parlant.com