[Tutor] Left Alignment -- Tkinter

[Alan Gauld]

Try packing the frame to the left and set it to expand.

HTH, Going on vacation....

Bye

Alan G.

"Wayne Watson" <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote in message 
news:49CD0D40.5090508 at sbcglobal.net...
> Signature.htmlThe code below is clearly not shifting the contents of the 
> frame to the left. It's supposed to look like
>
>          Geographic Location
> Latitude BOX  Longitude BOX
>         OK             Cancel
>
> but instead looks like:
>          Geographic Location
>       Latitude                BOX  Longitude BOX
>         OK             Cancel
>
> Where BOX is just a data entry field. I've deliberately made the label 
> size big enough so as not to obscure what happens with default values. A 
> 30x5 size. That is if I remove the size options, then it looks OK. I 
> don't think it really gets shift to the left though even though it looks 
> like it does.  Comments?
>
> # Framing it
> from   Tkinter import *
> from   tkSimpleDialog import Dialog
> import tkSimpleDialog
> import tkMessageBox
>
> class DialogPrototype(Dialog):
>
>    def body(self, master):
>
>        # Frames
>        fLocationTitle = Frame(master,)  # fL... f for frame
>        fLocationTitle.pack()
>        fLocation=Frame(master)
>        fLocation.pack()
>        fCoords = Frame(fLocation)      # lat/long coords in a frame
>        fCoords.pack()
>
>
>        self.title("Enter Site/Misc. Data")
>
>        # Latitude and Longitude
>
>        Label(fLocationTitle, text="Geographic 
> Location").grid(row=0,column=0)
>        #Label(fCoords, text='Latitude:').grid(row=0, sticky=W)
>        self.lab=Label(fCoords, text='Latitude:',width=30, height=5)
>        self.lab.grid(row=0, sticky=W)
>        self.lat = Entry(fCoords, width=12)
>        self.lat.grid(row=0, column=1)
>
>        Label(fCoords, text='Longitude:').grid(row=0, column=2)
>        self.long = Entry(fCoords, width=12)
>        self.long.grid(row=0, column=3)
>
>        return
>
>    def apply(self):
>        print "apply"
>        print self.lat.get()
>        print self.long.get()
>
>    print "setting"
>    lat=1.0
>    long=0.0
>
> root = Tk()
> root.withdraw()
> DialogPrototype(root)
>
> -- 
>
>           Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
>
>             (121.01 Deg. W, 39.26 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
>
>
>                "Life is one damn thing after another."
>                     -- Mark Twain
>


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