tkinter - Screen Resolution

[rahulnag22 at yahoo.com]

On May 9, 10:37 am, rahulna... at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I have developed a GUI using tkinter (grid geometory manager).
> The structure is a top frame containing multiple subframes. Each
> subframe has a combination of widgets like(Entry, label,
> button,listboxes). The subframes are placed with a padx and pady
> offset with regards to the other subframes. And the widgets within
> these subframes have their own padx and pady offsets. The GUI runs
> fine on my linux box, but on a different linux box things get wierd.
> I see things like-
> 1) The frame width increasing
> 2) The widget padx translating to much bigger offsets with reference
> to the subframe edges
> 3) Widget widths like that for Entry become bigger
>
> I Know its to do with the screen resolution settings and user settings
> on different machines. Can anyone point me in the right
> direction(before I start looking into it)as how to account for
> different screen resolutions so as to have as uniform a GUI look as
> possible across different user machines.
> A smaller version of my GUI layout looks something like-->
>
> ===============Top Frame=================
> =    - SubFrame -         ---------SubFrame---------
> =    -                -         -     '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''     -
> =    -                -         -     '       Widget       '     -
> =    -                -         -     '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''     -
> =    -   Widget   -         -----------------------------
> =    -                                                              -
> =    -                -         ---------SubFrame---------
> =    -                -         -                                   -
> =    -                -         -     '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''     -
> =    -   Widget    -         -    '       Widget       '     -
> =    -                -         -     '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''     -
> =    -                -         -                                   -
> =    -                -         -     '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''     -
> =    -                -         -     '       Widget       '     -
> =    -  Widget    -         -     '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''      -
> =    ---------------         -----------------------------
> =========================================
>
> Thanks
> Rahul