Hi, I have two version of a simple labeled entry widget.
import Tkinter as Tk class LabEntry(Tk.Entry) : def __init__(self,root,label,**args) : self.Frame= Tk.Frame(root) Lab=Tk.Label(self.Frame,text=label) Lab.grid(column=0,row=0) Tk.Entry.__init__(self,self.Frame,**args) self.grid(column=1,row=0) def grid(self,**args) : self.Frame.grid(**args) def Finish() : root.destroy() root= Tk.Tk() root.protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW',Finish) Name= Tk.StringVar() Name.set('') NameF= Tk.Frame(root) NameF.grid(column=0,row=0) Tk.Label(NameF,text='Name :').grid(column=0,row=0) NameE= Tk.Entry(NameF,textvariable=Name,width=25) NameE.grid(column=1,row=0) Tk.mainloop() ------------------------------------------------- This version, which doesn't use LabEntry, reserves space for 25 characters in the entry widget. But, replacing the last 6 lines by NameE= LabEntry(root,'Name :',textvariable=Name,width=25) NameE.grid(column=0,row=0) Tk.mainloop() the (internal) entry widget has only size 0 initially. Why? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss