Re^2: Tk Listbox item padx

G'day AnomalousMonk,

I don't know which widget you were thinking of. You didn't specify anything different from the Tk::Listbox widget that the OP asked about. That widget does not support any of the options you suggested. Here's two of them; the other two failed with similar messages.

$ perl -e 'use Tk; my $mw = tkinit; $mw->Listbox(-ipadx => 1)->pack; M
+ainLoop'
unknown option "-ipadx" at /long/path/to/Tk/Widget.pm line 205.
 at -e line 1.
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$ perl -e 'use Tk; my $mw = tkinit; $mw->Listbox(-padx => 1)->pack; Ma
+inLoop'
unknown option "-padx" at /long/path/to/Tk/Widget.pm line 205.
 at -e line 1.
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And purely as a test control, this worked:

$ perl -e 'use Tk; my $mw = tkinit; $mw->Listbox()->pack; MainLoop'
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— Ken

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Re^3: Tk Listbox item padx by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Apr 09, 2020 at 09:00 UTC
It was the mention of `padx` in the OP title that brought `-ipadx -ipady` to mind. These are `pack` options, but apparently `-ipadx` doesn't do quite what I imagined; this `c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "use Tk; ;; my $mw = tkinit; ;; my $lb = $mw->Listbox->pack(-ipadx => 10); $lb->insert('end', $_) for 'four score and', 'seven years ago', 'our +fathers'; ;; MainLoop "` [download] does not produce the left-hand border/indent I expected. Oh, well... Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Tk Listbox item padx by kcott (Archbishop) on Apr 09, 2020 at 10:01 UTC
The `-ipad` options are only available in a few places. Both the Tk::pack and Tk::grid geometry managers have them; I can't think of any others off the top of my head. The `-pad` options are more common. The geometry managers mentioned above, as well as Tk::form, have them. A number of widgets, such as Tk::Button and Tk::Text, also have them. — Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]