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Re^8: resizing problem with Tk appl using PackForget

by monger_39 (Initiate)
on Dec 08, 2011 at 08:49 UTC ( [id://942377]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^7: resizing problem with Tk appl using PackForget
in thread resizing problem with Tk appl using PackForget

The binding for the resizing is a good idea, since I'm not sure yet what would happen exactly when resizing (manually) between my hide/show actions.

Still, if I'm honest, I think this is a limitation of Tk: imho their should be more automatic resize options than me coding and remembering the size of all frames. For my app this is still doable, but for larger apps this would become very cumbersome!
Well, I probably just have to live with it; maybe someone will make a widget->hide() and widget->restore() to ease doing this. thx for your help !

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Re^9: resizing problem with Tk appl using PackForget
by zentara (Archbishop) on Dec 08, 2011 at 12:18 UTC
    Still, if I'm honest, I think this is a limitation of Tk: imho their should be more automatic resize options than me coding and remembering the size of all frames.

    Well, I think it maybe a widget layout design problem on your part, which probably can be easily fixed by carefully allowing all the child widgets to repack themselves, according to the new size.

    If you want to remove a frameful of widgets, you should remove it's child widgets first with packForget. (Its like you can't remove a directory which still has subdirs). In other words, don't use complete Frame removal to remove a set of widgets, remove each widget itself, and leave the Frame. Then when you do a resize, and want to repack your frame, each widget gets repacked, and will do so according to the new reported size of the Frame they are being packed into.

    I hope that made sense. Play with the following code, it creates new widgets on a rebuild, but you could repack your hidden widgets instead. A second example is also provided.

    #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Tk; my $top = new MainWindow; my @counts = ('a'..'z'); my %cbuttons; my $frame = $top->Frame()->pack(); setup_page(); $top->Button(-text => "packForget", -command => sub{ my @w = $frame->packSlaves; foreach (@w) { $_->packForget; } })->pack(); $top->Button(-text => "repack", -command => sub{ &setup_page })->pack(); $top->Button(-text => "Exit", -command => sub {exit})->pack; MainLoop; sub setup_page{ for (1..4){ my $text = shift @counts; $cbuttons{$_}{'cb'} = $frame->Checkbutton( -text => $text, -variable => \$cbuttons{$_}{'val'}, -command => \&SetState, )->pack; } }
    A second example:
    #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Tk; my $mw = MainWindow->new; my $vh = $mw->vrootheight; my $vw = $mw->vrootwidth; $mw->geometry($vw.'x'.$vh.'+0+0'); $mw->overrideredirect(1); #grabs full control $mw->fontCreate('big', -family=>'arial', -weight=>'bold', -size=>int(-18*18/14)); my $topframe = $mw->Frame->pack(); my $frame = $mw->Frame->pack(); my $txt; #make these globals so you reuse them my $canvas; #and avoid memory gains of making too many #redundant widgets my $count = 0; # instead of a button you could make navigation arrows $topframe->Button(-text => "Change Screen", -command => sub{ #clean out frame's children my @w = $frame->packSlaves; foreach (@w) { $_->packForget; } #clean out frame $frame->packForget; $count++; &build($count); })->pack(-side=>'left',-padx=>20); $topframe->Button(-text => "Exit", -command => sub {exit})->pack(-side=>'right',-padx=>20); &build(0); #setup first screen MainLoop; sub build { my $count = shift; $txt = $frame->Text(-bg=>'white',-font=>'big',-height=>5)->pack(-fill +=>'x'); $txt->insert('end',"\t\t\t\t Page $count"); # Note that the 'virtual window' height and width are $vh and $vw # respectively, so we use those dimensions for our Canvas height # and width, and let the Canvas expand and fill in both x and y # directions. # $canvas = $frame->Canvas( -width => $vw, -height => $vh, -background =>'blue', )->pack(-expand => 1, -fill => 'both'); $canvas->createRectangle(80, 80, 200, 200, -fill => 'yellow'); $canvas->createText(125, 125, -fill => 'black', -text => "page $count", -font => 'big', ); $frame->pack(); #reshow it $mw->update; }

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