Sounds completely reasonable. Each button has an invisible border ("padding") of 10 pixel, so the distance from button to button is 20 pixel. With a padding of 5 pixel per button, you get a distance of 10 pixel.

Alexander

Yes, it sounds reasonable, but at the end it doesn't look good.
I created a screenshot to better illustrate my situation.

Screenshot

The result should be that the distance of the red lines is the same like the green lines.

Regards,
unknown-monk

Hi,

you can embed the widgets enclosed by the green line in an extra frame and add padding to that frame like so:

use warnings;
use strict;

use Tk;
my $mw =MainWindow ->new;
my $f = $mw->Frame()->pack(-ipadx => 5);
$f -> Button(-width => 10)->grid(-row => 0, -column => 0, -padx => 5);
$f -> Button(-width => 10)->grid(-row => 0, -column => 1, -padx => 5);
MainLoop;
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Also, your screen layout looks like it could be easier defined using the Tk::pack geometry manager.

Cheers, Chris
update: Added example

Would an empty frame of a given size help you?