Screen resolution again

[David Lees]

Martin,

I just ran on my win98se box and your code works perfectly.  Thank you
kindly.

david lees


Martin Franklin wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 09 Jun 2002 5:59 pm, you wrote:
> > I am still trying to figure out how to automatically create a canvas
> > that is sized according to the screen resolution using tkinter on a
> > win95 box and python 2.2.1.  The hack below sort of does that, but I
> > would appreciate advice, suggestions or pointers to a url on how to do
> > it correctly.  Note that I create an extra canvas get the root height
> > and windth.
> >
> > david lees
> > -------------------
> >
> > from Tkinter import *
> > root = Tk()
> >
> > root.title('Drawing')
> > canvas = Canvas(root,width=20,height=20,bg='white')
> > canvas.pack()
> >
> > h = canvas.winfo_vrootheight()
> > w = canvas.winfo_vrootwidth()
> >
> >
> > print w,h
> > canvas2 = Canvas(root,width=w-30,height=h-30,bg='white')
> > canvas2.pack()
> >
> > root.mainloop()
> 
> Why not call winfo_vrootheight() on root, that at least gets rid of the first
> canvas.  I used this to test and it seemed to work but did not fill the
> entire screen I guess there is a bit of slack for the window decorations etc.
> however i'm running RedHat linux 7.2 with KDE What happens when you run this
> exactly?
> 
> import Tkinter
> root=Tkinter.Tk()
> root_height=root.winfo_vrootheight()
> root_width=root.winfo_vrootwidth()
> 
> print root_height, root_width # on my screen this prints 768 1024
> 
> canvas=Tkinter.Canvas(root, width=root_width, height=root_height)
> canvas.pack()
> root.mainloop()