Peter Spjuth 2004-01-12 : This page is for collecting and discussing ideas about improving the grid geometry manager.
If you who feel that anything here is a really good idea you are encouraged to write a TIP for it.
Previous TIPs about grid are 37 [L1 ], 146 [L2 ] and 147 [L3 ].
Weight on a slave
This is a shortcut for a rather common grid case. To make a widget fill up its space becomes a one-liner.
frame .f text .f.t grid .f.t -sticky news -weight 1
If a slave has both "n" and "s" in its -sticky, its -weight is transferred to the row(s) it occupies.
If a slave has both "w" and "e" in its -sticky, its -weight is transferred to the column(s) it occupies.
If different slaves or a row/columnconfigure want to set contradicting weights (not counting 0), this is an error.
Setting up slave defaults in a master
grid slavedefaults .f -padx 2 -pady 2 -sticky news
Affects any slaves added to that master in the future.
Maybe even:
grid slavedefaults all -padx 2 -pady 2 -sticky news
Scrolled grid
frame .f scrollbar .sbx -command "grid xview .f" scrollbar .sby -command "grid yview .f" grid masterconfigure .f -xscrollcommand ".sbx set" -yscrollcommand ".sby set"
This becomes a way to do a scrolled frame without the frame-in-canvas trick.