Tkinter Toplevel geometry

[James Stroud]

James Stroud wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If a user resizes a Toplevel window, or I set a Toplevel's geometry
>> using the geometry() method*, is there any way to have the geometry
>> reset to that required for all the widgets?
>>
>> I think I found what I'm looking for in tk itself:
>> """
>> 13.3. How can I clear the geometry settings for a toplevel?
>> If you want to have Tk resize your toplevel to what the toplevel
>> requires (ie: the user might have resized it, or a widget was
>> removed), use [wm geometry $toplevel].
>> """
>> [from http://tcl.sourceforge.net/faqs/tk/]
>>
>>
>>
>> * for instance, if I want to turn of Tkinter's automatic adjustment of
>> the window to fit all the widgets by doing something like
>> self.geometry(self.geometry()), is there any way to undo that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I think you are on to something. The equivalent of
> 
>    [wm geometry $toplevel]
> 
> in Tkinter would be
> 
>    sometop.geometry()
> 
> Or, equivalently,
> 
>    sometop.wm_geometry()
> 
> Or, calling the underlying tcl/tk interpreter directly
> 
>    sometop.tk.call('wm', 'geometry', str(sometop))
> 
> Which is redundant, but emphasizes the point: This does not resize the
> widget as expected nor does it cause the window to resize upon adding 
> new packing slaves--at least for the X11 based Tkinter for mac via the 
> fink debian based package manager.
> 
> Really wish things worked according to the docs a lot of the time or 
> that they weren't so poorly written. Perhaps they are implying that you 
> must pass parameters, however they do not explain how one might generate 
> said parameters to get the required size to which they allude. Terribly 
> disappointing.
> 
> James

After playing with this an inordinate amount of time, I found that one 
does need to supply parameters, namely the null parameter of an empty 
string. Try:

   sometop.geometry('')

This repacks according to the widgets. Not quite clear from the 
miserable docs, is it?

James