centering 2 buttons...

[Greg Trafton]

Hi, all. I have two buttons I'd like centered and am having a heck of
a time doing it. I'm sure this should be easy, but no luck so far.

here's what I'm trying to do:

button $w.ok -text "OK"
button $w.cancel -text "Cancel"

pack $w.ok $w.cancel -side left -fill x

I'd like the OK and Cancel butons centered. Unfortunately, the
packing space for them is rather big (about 5x the length of both
buttons), and I'd like them centered within the packing space.

Suggestions anyone?

many thanks!
greg
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Greg Trafton
(tra...@itd.nrl.navy.mil)

[Bryan Oakley]

Greg Trafton wrote:

Hi, all. I have two buttons I'd like centered and am having a heck of
a time doing it. I'm sure this should be easy, but no luck so far.

here's what I'm trying to do:

button $w.ok -text "OK"
button $w.cancel -text "Cancel"

pack $w.ok $w.cancel -side left -fill x

I'd like the OK and Cancel butons centered. Unfortunately, the
packing space for them is rather big (about 5x the length of both
buttons), and I'd like them centered within the packing space.

Suggestions anyone?

Does this do what you want?

# for illustrative purposes...
text .text
pack .text -side top

# create a frame for the buttons, then create the buttons
# inside that frame
frame .options
button .options.ok -text ok -width 5
button .options.cancel -text cancel -width 5
pack .options.ok .options.cancel -side left -expand n -fill none

pack .options -side bottom -anchor n

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Bryan Oakley, Software Engineer
Healthcare Communications, Inc.
oak...@healthcare.com

[Sandeep V. Tamhankar]

tra...@hci24.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Trafton) wrote:
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>here's what I'm trying to do:
>
> button $w.ok -text "OK"
> button $w.cancel -text "Cancel"
>
> pack $w.ok $w.cancel -side left -fill x
>
>I'd like the OK and Cancel butons centered. Unfortunately, the
>packing space for them is rather big (about 5x the length of both
>buttons), and I'd like them centered within the packing space.

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If $w were packed with a "-fill x", take out the "-fill x". After that,
I'd say the only thing left is take out the "-fill x" from the above.
The result should be two buttons centered in your window.

Hope this helps.
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Sandeep V. Tamhankar
Analysis Technician
Signaling Capabilities Analysis

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