[Tutor] help with Tkinter, please

[Dick Moores]

At 08:59 AM 11/26/2006, Michael Lange wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:23:39 -0800
>Dick Moores <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote:
>
> > I've done a lot of fiddling around with setting "side=left", and
> > trying to put all the buttons inside a second Frame inside the first
> > one, but I can't get the layout I want, which is the Label on top of
> > the Entry, then a row of the first 3 buttons (which respectively
> > trigger 3 different computations on the integer the user enters).
> > Then below that, the Exit button, with the Text widget at the bottom.
> > How to do this? Is it impossible with the pack() method?
> >
>
>It is certainly not impossible, as long as you do not mind creating
>a bunch of extra Frames, however to me this really sound like a
>job for grid() .
>You could simply use grid(row=<xx>  , column=0, columnspan=2)
>for the widgets that should use the whole window's width and grid
>the 3 buttons into columns 0, 1 and 2 .

Thanks. I'll give grid() a try.

Dick