[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter: window manager- .resizable

[Michael Lange]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:09:21 +0100
Madhu Subramaniam <madhu.subramaniam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I work with python 2.5.2 and i use Tkinter for a gui app development.
> Platform with which i work is:- Linux version 2.6.9-67.ELsmp (
> brewbuilder at hs20-bc1-5.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red
> Hat 3.4.6-8))**
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> #----------------------
> from Tkinter import *
> import pdb
> import os
> import string
> import threading
> from tkFileDialog import *
> from tkMessageBox import *
> import sys
> 
> main_w = Tk()
> main_w.resizable(width = False, height = False)
> #main_w.maxsize(width= 1000, height = 3000)
> print main_w.resizable()
> main_w.mainloop()
> 
> In the above code the command main_w.resizable.... does not work. That
> means, the user can drag the window to a larger size but cannot make the
> same smaller.
> 
> On printing:
> -------------
> print main_w.resizable()
> 
> i do get 0,0 as output!
> 
> BUT,  the resizable attribute works  if i add the following line
> main_w.maxsize(width= 1000, height = 3000)
> where the values are random but should not be set to width = 0, height =0,
> in which case it (widget.resizable(width = False, height = False)) does not
> function.
> 
> 
> So is this a bug, or am i doing something wrong here ? :O
> 
> Regards
> Thanks
> arms
> 

I cannot verify this here (Python2.5.2 on debian etch). Which version of Tk and which Wm do you use?

Michael