Tkinter question: disappearing label using the packer?

[Jake Baker]

Hi all. Thanks for answering my last question! Here's another one:

I'm using Tkinter (under windows NT, if that's relevant.) I want to carefully place some items on the window, so I decided to use the packer(). Since I want to mix styles in the same window, I want to put my place()d objects in a Frame object. Surprise! When I do this, the objects in the Frame disappear! (Actually, the frame disappears to!)

Examples:

This works: (using the pack()er)

=begin=

from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()
label = Label(root, text='Hello world!')
label.pack()
root.mainloop()

= end =

This does not work: (place()ing in a nested Frame object)

=begin=

from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()
frame = Frame(root, bg='white')
frame.pack()
label = Label(frame, text='Hello world!')
label.place(x=0)
root.mainloop()

=end=

Can any tk guru tell me why this is happening? I'm so frustrated trying to get Tk to display the way I want it to I'm thinking of creating all my own widgets and gui routines and painting them on a Canvas!

Thanks,
 - Jake