Re: tk frame packing showing inconsistent behaviour

G'day ghosh123,

I recommend that you read the Tk::pack documentation, paying particular attention to the "THE PACKER ALGORITHM" and "EXPANSION" sections.

You specify that $hlistframe should take up the available vertical space with "-side => 'top', -expand => 1", then seem surprised that it does so: claiming it's "showing inconsistent behaviour".

After you've used up the available space, you add $bottomframe (curiously, given the variable name, as "-side => 'top'") which, obviously, is out of sight until you enlarge the window. You also use "-fill => 'both'" for this frame which, in the context of the code you've posted, makes no sense.

-- Ken

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Re^2: tk frame packing showing inconsistent behaviour by ghosh123 (Monk) on Aug 23, 2013 at 18:31 UTC
As per the doc , if i use -side => top, then the width of the parcel is the width of the cavity and its height is the requested height of the slave plus the -ipady and -pady options. So I set a smaller height for the $hlistframe so that it does not use up the available vertical space and some space is still left for the $bottomframe. Also packed the $bottomframe with -side=>bottom. But it is not working. May be I am doing something wrong. Plese help. Thanks.	[reply]
Re^3: tk frame packing showing inconsistent behaviour by Anonymous Monk on Aug 25, 2013 at 07:36 UTC
Try reading the algorithm again, paying close attention to the options in -bold packorder is packorder it determines who gets dibs first, and you have $bottomframe last in the packorder The solution is to change the packorder	[reply]