In your example code, you didn't say where you wanted the Text widget to actually be. Normally when designing, when you want custom packing, you create a Frame (with it options properly set to expand) and pack your Text widget into the Frame. You can't just pack stuff into Frames and expect the layout to work. Most of the time you need nested Frames.

Here is a simple example demonstrating the idea. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::Pane;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;

$mw->geometry( '400x250' );

my $mwf = $mw->Scrolled(
   'Pane',
   -scrollbars => 'ose',
   -sticky     => 'nwse',
)->pack( -expand => 1, -fill => 'both' );

my $f1 = $mwf->Frame()->pack( -expand => 1, -fill => 'both' );
my $f2 = $mwf->Frame()->pack( -expand => 1, -fill => 'both' );

my %dudes;
my $dude_count = 1;

foreach my $fr($f1, $f2){
  foreach (1..6){
    $dudes{$dude_count}{'text'} = $fr->Text(
       -background => 'white',
       -foreground => 'black',
       -height     => 10,
       -width      => 22
   )->pack(-side=>'left', -expand => 1, -fill => 'both' );

   $dudes{$dude_count}{'text'}->insert('end', "\n Dude $dude_count\n")
+;

  $dude_count++;
  }
}


MainLoop();

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In reply to Re: tk positioning of widgets by zentara
in thread tk positioning of widgets by gibsonca

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