[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 [http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/37.html],
146 [http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/146.html] and
147 [http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/147.html].

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'''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.

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'''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

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'''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.

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